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 need only hold your hand perpendicularly over the candle, and then hold it sideways obliquely, to be sensible of the difference.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

Every one must be sensible of the many and varied applications of photography.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

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.