reafon

If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand con - fifts quickncfs of parts; in this of having them uncon - fufed, and being able nicely to diftinguifli one thing from another, where there is but the leafl dilfcrence, coniifts, in a great meafure, the exadnefs of judg - ment, and clcarnefs of reafon, which is to be obfcrvcd in one man above another.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1796

Sole daughter of his voice; the reft, we live Law to ourfelves, our reafon is our law.

The Works of the English Poets 1779

X23 upon the judgment: — or that the little huerefts below could rife up and per - plex the faculties of our upper regions, and encompafs them about with clouds and thick darknefs: could no fuch thing as favour and affection enter this facred court: did Wit difdain to take a bribe in it, or was afhamed to fhew its face as an advocate for an unwarrantable enjoyment: — or, laftly, were we affured that Interest flood always unconcern'd whilft the caufe was hearing, — and that Passion ne - ver got into the judgment feat, and pronounced fentence in che flead of reafon, which is fuppofed always to prefide and determine upon the cafe;

The sermons of Mr. Yorick 1775

I can eafily conceive, that a balance of light and fhade may be founded in fome kind of reafon; but am at a lofs to give a reafon for a predominancy of either.

Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; And on Sketching ... 1792

17 Let this be the fumme: that it is feen that in all mankindc it reafon which is propre to our nature, which maketh vs to differ from brute beaftcs, as brute beaftes do differ in fenfe from thinges without life.

The institution of christian religion 1578

Natural allegiance is therefore perpetual, and local temporary only: and that for this reafon, evidently founded upon the nature of government; that allegiance is a debt due from the fubject, upon an implied contract with the prince, that fo long as the one affords protection, fo long the other will demean himfelf faithfully.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010

As therefore the prince is always under a conftant tie to protect his natural-born fubjects, at all times and in all countries, for this reafon their allegiance due to him is equally univerfal and permanent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010

As therefore the prince is always under a conftant tie to protect his natural-born fubjects, at all times and in all countries, for this reafon their allegiance due to him is equally univerfal and permanent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010

Natural allegiance is therefore perpetual, and local temporary only: and that for this reafon, evidently founded upon the nature of government; that allegiance is a debt due from the fubject, upon an implied contract with the prince, that fo long as the one affords protection, fo long the other will demean himfelf faithfully.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School 2010

It is np lefs effen - tial to man to have fome difcernment of beauty, than it is to polTefs the attributes of reafon and offpeech*.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812