be sensible of

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Inspired by Jean Jacques Rousseau's dedicated frankness, Bozzy deemed it "fine to be sensible of all one's various sentiments and to analyze them."

From Time Magazine Archive

You may not be sensible of a loss of this sort, nor even the physician.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

To know or be sensible of Suffering or being acted upon is to live; and whatsoever is not so, among created Things, is properly and truly dead.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

And, besides, to be sensible of what I ought once to have done is a very different thing from being able to do it now.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

To be sensible of the benefits we have derived from railways and locomotives let us consider for a moment what would be our position if they were taken from us. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various