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Written by Barbara
(10/3/2006 7:06 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, That meaning predates S&S, penned by Laraine
However, I wonder why the very last entry suggest that the meaning of 'reasonable, judicious, wise' was of "low use" at that time, which was just a bit before JA?
Would your cambrick were as sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity. Shakespeare. These be those discourses of God, whose effects those that live witness in themselves; the sensible in their sensible natures, the reasonable in their reasonable souls. Raleigh. A blind man conceives not colours, but under the notion of some other sensible faculty. Glanv. Sceps.
By reason man attaineth unto the knowledge of things that are and are not sensible: it resteth, therefore, that we search how man attaineth unto the knowledge of such things unsensible as are to be known. Hooker. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle tow'rd my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Shakesp. Macbeth. The space left and acquired in every sensible moment in such slow progressions, is so inconsiderable, that it cannot possibly move the sense. Glanv. Sceps. It is manifest that the heavens are void of all sensible resistance, and by consequence of all sensible matter. Newton. The far greater part of men are no otherwise moved than by sense, and have neither leisure nor ability so far to improve their power of reflection, as to be capable of conceiving the divine perfections, without the assistance of sensible objects. Rogers's Sermons. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion, and by its resistance to bodies moved in it. Arbuthnot on Air.
Idleness was punished by so many stripes in publick, and the disgrace was more sensible than the pain. Temple.
This must needs remove The sensible of pain. Milton. I saw you in the East at your first arising: I was as soon sensible as any of that light, when just shooting out, and beginning to travel upwards to the meridian. Dryden. I do not say there is no soul in man, because he is not sensible of it in his sleep; but I do say, he cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke. The versification is as beautiful as the description complete; every ear must be sensible of it. Broome's Notes on the Odyss.
If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great a shew of zeal. Shakespeare.
Even I, the bold, the sensible of wrong, Restrain'd by shame, was forc'd to hold my tongue. Dryd.
They are very sensible that they had better have pushed their conquests on the other side of the Adriatick; for then their territories would have lain together. Addison.
I have been tired with accounts from sensible men, furnished with matters of fact, which have happened within their own knowledge. Addison.
Would your cambrick were as sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity. Shakespeare. These be those discourses of God, whose effects those that live witness in themselves; the sensible in their sensible natures, the reasonable in their reasonable souls. Raleigh. A blind man conceives not colours, but under the notion of some other sensible faculty. Glanville's Scepsis.
By reason man attaineth unto the knowledge of things that are and are not sensible: it resteth, therefore, that we search how man attaineth unto the knowledge of such things unsensible as are to be known. Hooker. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle tow'rd my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Shakespeare's Macbeth. The space left and acquired in every sensible moment in such slow progressions, is so inconsiderable, that it cannot possibly move the sense. Glanville's Scepsis. It is manifest that the heavens are void of all sensible resistance, and by consequence of all sensible matter. Newton. The greater part of men are no otherwise moved than by sense, and have neither leisure nor ability so to improve their power of reflection, as to be capable of conceiving the divine perfections, without the assistance of sensible objects. Rogers. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion, and by its resistance to bodies moved in it. Arbuthnot on Air.
Idleness was punished by so many stripes in publick, and the disgrace was more sensible than the pain. Temple.
This must needs remove The sensible of pain. Milton. I saw you in the East at your first arising: I was as soon sensible as any of that light, when just shooting out, and beginning to travel upwards to the meridian. Dryden. I do not say there is no soul in man, because he is not sensible of it in his sleep; but I do say, he cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke. The versification is as beautiful as the description complete; every ear must be sensible of it. Broome's Notes on the Odyssey.
If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so great a shew of zeal. Shakespeare.
Even I, the bold, the sensible of wrong, Restrain'd by shame, was forc'd to hold my tongue. Dryden.
They are very sensible that they had better have pushed their conquests on the other side of the Adriatick; for then their territories would have lain together. Addison.
I have been tired with accounts from sensible men, furnished with matters of fact, which have happened within their own knowledge. Addison.
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