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- The Latin phrase, sensus communis, may, in various passages of Cicero, be translated by our phrase common sense; but, on other occasions, it means something different; the sensus communis of the schoolmen is quite another thing, and is synonymous with conception, and referred to the seat of intellect; with Sir John Davies, in his curious metaphysical poem, common sense is used as imagination. - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)", Isaac Disraeli.
- While at Balliol, he was rather " the last of the Schoolmen" than " the first of the Reformers." - "The Charm of Oxford", J. Wells.
- Turning L., an inscription on No. 14 marks the site of the Dominican monastery where the great schoolmen, Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas taught. - "The Story of Paris", Thomas Okey.