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• Peggy in the middle, with her eyebrows more peaked than ever, and an expression of resigned martyrdom on her small, pale face; Mellicent, large and placid, on the left; Esther on the right, scowling at nothing, and, over their shoulders, the two boys' heads, handsome Max and frowning Robert There," cried Oswald, "that's what I call a sensible arrangement! —  About Peggy Saville
• But Marcion shewed himself to be a Greek, influenced by the religious spirit of the time, by changing the ethical contrast of the good and legal into the contrast between the infinitely exalted spiritual and the sensible which is subject to the law of nature, by despairing of the triumph of good in the world and, consequently, correcting the traditional faith that the world and history belong to God, by an empirical view of the world and the course of events in it,[373] a view to which he was no doubt also led by the severity of the early Christian estimate of the world. —  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
• And some distinct principle is necessary for this; since the perception of sensible forms comes by an immutation caused by the sensible, which is not the case with the perception of those intentions Thus, therefore, for the reception of sensible forms, the "proper sense" and the common sense are appointed, and of their distinction we shall speak farther on (ad 1, 2). —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• In case the difference of opinion 176 can be judged, if it is judged through anything intellectual, we fall into the regressus in infinitum_, and if through anything sensible into the circulus in probando_; for, as the sensible is again subject to difference of opinion, and cannot be judged by the sensible on account of the regressus in infinitum_, it will have need of the intellectual, just as the intellectual has need of the sensible. —  Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism
• All along the road we passed groups of tramping volunteers fresh from America with store clothes and suitcases; the sensible were also festooned with boots. —  The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

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