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
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
May you feel in your own bosom the reward you so richly deserve, and be sensible of those joys with which 'a stranger intermeddleth not.'
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
Thus, you see, that we can never be sensible of �rial tides by the barometer, on account of the equality of pressure of the atmosphere, whatever be its height.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.
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.
