The worth of such actions is not a thing to be decided in a quaver of sensibility or a flush of righteous commonsense.
For here was a far more powerful brain, strong, clear and well-trained, and a heart whose tenderness and sensibility have never had justice.
What stamps the language of Jesus invariably is its delicate ease, implying a sensibility to every real aspect of the matter in hand--a sense of mastery and peace.
Let it be some comfort to those whose polite sensibility has laboured under such distress to be assured, that they need never henceforward fear to be reduced to similar dilemmas.
Let those forbear to follow him whose fine feelings can be moved only by romantic, elegant scenes of distress, whose delicate sensibility shrinks from the revolting sight of real misery.
The most prominent of these dispositions in man, is that physicalsensibility from which flows all his intellectual or moral qualities.
Thus, as soon as the body ceases to live, its sensibility can no longer exercise itself; when its sensibility is no more, it can no longer have ideas, nor in consequence thoughts.
Some philosophers think that sensibility is a universal quality of matter: in this case, it would be useless to seek from whence this property is derived, as we know it by its effects.
However this may be, the sensibility of the brain, and all its parts, is a fact: if it be asked, whence comes this property?
To have sensibility is nothing more than to be so constituted as to feel promptly, and in a very lively manner, the impressions of those objects which act upon him.
Having treated of passive sensibility in the order of possibles, a similar question naturally arises with respect to the active sensibility of beings subject to different conditions from those of our soul while united to the body.
The phenomenon of sensibility reveals to us the existence of an order of beings distinct from matter.
This is certain, unless we mean to attribute imagination and sensibility to pure spirits, and even to God himself.
If they do not prove the truth of these three propositions, all the objections founded on the phenomena of sensibility fall to the ground.
To regard space as a mere condition of sensibility is to confound the two aspects under which extension should be considered, as the basis of sensations, and as idea; as the field of all sensible representations, and as the origin of geometry.
Possibility of a greater Sphere in active Sensibility 469 XXXII.
In fact, how do we know but what the repugnance which does not exist between sensibility and simplicity, may exist between sensibility and some attribute which we know nothing about?
But this passive sensibility is not intrinsically necessary to it: I mean that God could so have disposed the collection of beings constituting the universe as not to be sensible.
No; these representations are a sort of continuation of sensibility which God has not; they are the exercise of the internal sense, which is not found in God.
Sensibility in such an animal borders on insensibility, whilst in man it approaches intelligence, the representations of his senses are so varied and so extended as to produce within him a whole world, and they might produce infinite others.
Therefore, however it may be perfected, sensibility can never become intelligence.
If one only is not proved, all the objections are solved; for it is evident that the phenomena of sensibility may be altered by three causes: I.
Amidst all her gifts, has Nature denied her most precious, the sensibility of Pleasure?
I admire your filial affection,' said the Abbot; 'It proves the excellence and sensibility of your character; It promises a treasure to him whom Heaven has destined to possess your affections.
Tis my unbounded adoration of religion; 'Tis my soul's exquisite sensibility of the beauty of fair and good, that loads me with shame!
Yet it was rather bewitching than beautiful; It was not so lovely from regularity of features as from sweetness and sensibility of Countenance.
While He listened to her melancholy accents, Lorenzo's sensibility became yet more violently affected.
Her features were of that exquisite sensibility which gives so much charm to the fair sex, but nature had given her a beautiful body and a deformed soul.
There is a feminine delicacy in whatever alludes to the female character, not merely courtly, but imbued with that sensibility which St. Palaye has remarkably described as "full of refinement and fanaticism.
Can we imagine that Johnson himself experienced a degree of conviction, some perplexing consciousness, that his spirit was not endowed with the sensibility of Longinus?
Were his taste and sensibility commensurate with that learning which dictated with authority, and that ingenuity which reared into a system the diversified materials of his critical fabric?
His eagerness for action may possibly have proceeded from the most laudable motives, his sensibility to the horrors which his countrymen were daily and hourly suffering, and his ardour to relieve them.
The Duke Orsino, observing the sensibility which the pretended Cesario had betrayed on hearing some touching old snatches of a love strain, swears that his beardless page must have felt the passion of love, which the other admits.
The character of Lamb it is, and the life-struggle of Lamb, that must fix the attention of many, even amongst those wanting in sensibility to his intellectual merits.
Why it is that the people of the United States manifest such acute sensibility to the strictures of English writers, and receive their criticisms with so much suspicion, Mr. Mackay is unable fully to determine.
I see in this young girl that union of strength and sensibility which, when directed and impelled by the strong instinct so apt to accompany this combination of active and passive capacity, we call genius.
Her deep feelings of moral sensibility enabled her to truly sympathize with her own sex in their home troubles.
He is one of the few happy mortals to whom it has been granted to be able to gratify, in a worthy manner, the most lively sensibility to every thing noble and beautiful.
He had all the sensibility and imagination of the past, with the keenest relish of every thing that was prominent in living character among his fellow-men.
These are the first outbursts of the sensibility of a young soul which promise excellent things.
He is endowed with such a beautiful sang-froid, which acts under all circumstances, and such vivid sensibility that everything paints itself in his memory, everything fixes itself under his pen.
Throughout Nature it would seem to be indispensable that the mother should have finer and quicker sensibility than the father.
Now the really extraordinary thing to me was that my informant had plainly no idea of my moral sensibilitybeing shocked at these statements.
General Lafayette replied in his usually courteous and animated manner, and evincing his great sensibility to the kind and friendly greetings with which he had been received.
To a man of his great sensibility and warmth of affection, the severest affliction which Lafayette has been called to endure, great and various as have been his sufferings, now awaited him.
There was a solemn earnestness in his manner, a touching sensibility in his whole countenance which most deeply impressed every observer.
The reception of Lafayette at Catskill, Hudson and Livingston's manor, was highly gratifying to him, and honorable to the sensibility and patriotism of the people.
A deep and increasing sensibilityadded to this dislike of society.
Simply because the tone of our affections would be more in unison, and because his more blunted sensibility would not require the return of enthusiasm which I have not to bestow.
It is said, that “tears of sensibility and affection were shed at their departure by all classes of people, and the parties in arms appeared mutually disposed to submit their differences to the king and the national assembly.
Mine is a sensibility gangrened with inward corruption and the keen searching of the air from without.
The skirmishes of sensibilityare indeed contemptible when compared with the well-disciplined phalanx of right-onward feelings.
With quick perceptions of moral beauty, it was impossible for me not to admire in you your sensibility regulated by judgment, your gaiety proceeding from a cheerful heart acting on the stores of a strong understanding.
No less important is the question of the sensibility of the plants to these factors.
This wide range of variability between definite limits is coupled with a high degree of sensibility and adequateness to the most diverging experiments.
Aside from these considerations the experiments clearly give proof of the existence of a period of sensibility limited to the first weeks of the life of the plant for the terminal flower.
Afterwards the sensibility [389] slowly and gradually decreases, to end with the definite decision of all further growth sometime before the outer form of the organ becomes visible under the microscope.
The best nourished not only during the period of sensibility of the attribute under consideration, but also in the broadest sense of the word.
This is partly due to differences in exposure, but mainly to alterations of the sensibility of the organs themselves.
Obviously this sensibility must not be expected to remain the same during the entire life-period, and periods of stronger and of weaker responses may be discerned.
Men of feeling and sensibilityappealed with deep emotion to the religious feelings and benevolence of the people.
Her sensibility as a woman, and her dignity as a queen, were instantly in arms.
The inhabitants of Cariari manifested unusual sensibilityat this seizure of their countrymen.
These new kinds of irritability and of sensibilityin consequence of new organization appear from variety of facts in the more mature animals; thus .
By increasing the sensibility of the photographic preparation, this difficulty is overcome, and particularly when any organic compound enters into the preparation.
The degree ofsensibility which has been attained is remarkable.
Thus, in this world, refined genius must necessarily be attended with a condition of sensibility which, too frequently, to the possessor is a state of real disease.
A man of any sensibility must desire to veil his face, and, bowing his excuses to the collective rapture, take the first train for the wicked outside world to which he belongs.
