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Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of thin ...
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch, ...
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their min ...
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and ...
You did not sense the wings beyond the gate;
you could not see,
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The laying of fish on the embers,
the taste of the fish,
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Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much sco ...
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once ...
... in this air of withering sweetness ...
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect ...
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