How To Use Common person In A Sentence
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Man, according to the old scholastic definition, is "a rational animal" (_animal rationale_), and his animality is distinct in nature from his rationality, though inseparably joined, during life, in one common personality.
On the Genesis of Species
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If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption.
Dedication
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If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness 'future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption.
The Discovery of Guiana
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The play of politics, with its betrayal and intrigue and calculation and conspiracy, holds the common persons in thrall…
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Spring through the winter are a common person's expectations.
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'Oh, she's no lady -- she's some common person -- no _lady_ would behave in that manner.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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They have firmly accepted the Confucian belief in the perfectibility and educability of the common person.
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So, what will be next, now that the Emperor is merely a common person?
