Our belief in the reality of a thing may therefore be said to mean assurance that this association in our minds between actual and possible sensations is somehow guaranteed.
Further, Berkeley's own theory would never permit him to speak of possible sensations, meaning by that the ideas of sensations called up to our minds by present experience.
The peeping of frogs roused in Lane sensationsthrilling and strange.
Something had happened to him that now made thesensations of the moment stingingly bitter-sweet.
When he climbed the dirty dark stairway up to the second floor a throng of memories returned with the sensations of creaky steps, musty smell, and dim light.
A thousand pricking, rushing sensations seemed to be on the way to his head.
It is like the consciousness of a very young child, which feels and knows its sensations and wants, but is unable to think of itself as "I," and to turn the mental gaze inward.
He could easily make up for the deficiencies of a wife who was a little silly, and if she charmed and amused him, he could treat himself to the luxury of these sensations for themselves.
Concerning the igloo, the following are my impressions, taken from my diary: "Never in my life have I experienced suchsensations as I did on this occasion.
Snow-blindness gave one much the same sensations as those experienced by standing over a smoking bonfire keeping eyes open.
Happiness, I have lately discovered, is no positive feeling, but a negative condition of freedom from a number of restrictive sensations of which our organism usually seems to be the seat.
He insists that all sensations imply a patient and an agent.
He describes his sensations as by no means unpleasant, and thinks that death by a fall from a great height is painless.
In plain words, sight and sound and smell are produced at very different intervals of time, but are equally sudden sensations when produced; and even those which are more slowly generated are as quickly felt.
To one man came incredible sensations as they paused a moment.
He had the feeling it would be better to turn on the light, as though this conversation and the strange sensations it produced in him would be impossible in a full blaze.
Our sensations were no longer such as we experienced at the earlier exhibitions.
However clear my sensationsmay be, however precise the memory which I have retained of them, I hesitate to write them down in so many words.
And in consequence of carefully weighing and examining all these things I did not come to the first performance at Meudon with my hands in my pockets, as a lover of sensations and a dabbler in mystery.
However great the tension of the mind may be when concentrated on an idea which entirely absorbs it, we remain more or less subject to the thousand sensations that assail us.
When we travel, a comparatively large number of fresh sensations occupy attention, there is a maximum of consciousness, and a distinct image is left to loom up in memory.
The greater the number of sensations which occupy the foreground of consciousness during the day, the longer the day seems in the retrospect.
In reply to a question as to his first sensations in the great divide beyond he stated that previously he had seen as in a glass darkly but that those who had passed over had summit possibilities of atmic development opened up to them.
With whatsensations did Bloom contemplate in rotation these objects?
The larger and more manifold it becomes, so much the more does it awaken similar sensationsin all directions through the organs of thought, until, by degrees, it becomes universally predominant, and occupies the whole soul.
The understanding of man is extremely limited, and, therefore, all sensations resulting from its action must of necessity be also limited.
So far we have met with such sensations only as they take their rise in an antecedent operation of the understanding; but we have now to deal with sensations in which the understanding bears no part.
The system of animal sensationsand motions, then, comprises the conception of the animal nature.
These sensations have quickly and forcibly to determine the will to aversion or desire; but, on the other hand, they are ever to float on the surface of the soul, and never to extend to the province of the reason.
It experiences pleasant sensations that it may preserve the animal life.
I mean the sympathy of certain sensations for the organs from which they sprang.
The animal sensations therefore may be said to further the welfare of the animal nature, just as the moral and intellectual perceptions promote spiritual progress or perfection.
No man, however, can go through the experience of returning to the associations of his youth, after more than thirty years of struggle like his, without sensations such as he would not care to express in words.
For weeks after the great shock, curious sensations were distinctly perceptible during the still hours of the night "as though the crust of the earth were resting on a gelatinous mass in constant motion.
The displacement gives rise to series of waves, which are propagated outwards in all directions, and which, when they reach the surface, produce the sensations known to us as those of an earthquake.
Before Flinders once more sighted the Australian coastline he was to experience the sensations of battle, and to take a small part in the first of the series of naval engagements connected with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era.
But new sensations in the matter of food are not always to be depended on.
Fielding spoke but the history of his own sensations when he declared that he “had no doubt but the most pathetic scenes had been writ with tears.
He had often expressed a wish to be hanged, from the notion that this Newgate mode of terminating life must give rise to sensations of great pleasure.
Cato the elder observes that there could be no friendship in a man whose palate had quicker sensations than his brain and heart.
Abernethy considers the sensations of the dying similar to those experienced by persons labouring under delirium.
Such is the mode of reasoning she adopts whenever urgently persuaded to banish from her mind the horrid sensations which are embittering her life.
She fancied the sensationsmust be of a pleasurable character.
These sensations are, however, momentary, for insensibility and death rapidly close the scene.
He confessed that at first he felt pain, but that after the cords became tight to a certain degree, he was soon rewarded by the most exquisite sensations of pleasure.
All human knowledge begins with the senses, and goes on fromsensations to percepts, from percepts to concepts and names.
Certain impressions, the sensations of sight and touch, have in themselves the element of space, for these impressions (Hume skilfully transfers his statement to the points) have a certain order or mode of arrangement.
The sensations of hunger and thirst lead us, or when urgent compel us, to take food and drink into the mouth.
We were shipwrecked,' says the mariner, relating his adventures; and in those three words what a world of incident and sensations is comprised!
It is difficult to portray in words the sensationsof the book-collector when engaged in searching some ancient building or library--especially if he be upon a 'hot scent.
It was discovered in the library at such and such a place,' we read, and we barely stop to picture the scene of its finding or to imagine the sensations of its finder.
Indigestion is quite a common cause of wakefulness, even when no marked disagreeable sensations are experienced in the digestive organs.
With the same kindliness that marks all the arrangements of the animal economy, this condition is attended with many pleasing sensations and salutary effects, gently alluring us to seek the renovation which it offers.
Sensations may be so intense as to be partially appreciated by the brain, and yet not strong enough to cause sleep to be interrupted.
It may originate from painful sensations in any part of the body.
I am satisfied that many persons would perceive these spectres if they learned to observe their sensations at the proper times.
The sensations experienced were rather agreeable than otherwise.
Neither of the Mr Delviles spent the day at home, and nothing, therefore, disturbed or interrupted those glowing and delightful sensations which spring from a cordial renewal of friendship and kindness.
Left now to herself, sensationsunfelt before filled the heart of Cecilia.
But, like a thoroughly scientific man, as he is, he had observed hissensations to the last.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
