I did not doubt the high principles, but feared much that there would be a lack of common sense. So many have talked on that subject, and have shown so great a lack of common sense! As to the eloquence, that might be there or might not. Emerson is a Massachusetts man, very well known in Boston, and a great crowd was collected to hear him. I suppose there were some three thousand persons in the room. I confess that when he took his place before us my prejudices were against him. The matter in hand required no philosophy. It required common sense, and the very best of common sense.英文原著 · 《North America-1》
And from thence also it followeth, that whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.英文原著 · 《The Elements of Law Natural and Politic》
He that feareth death, either feareth that he shall have no sense at all, or that his senses will not be the same. Whereas, he should rather comfort himself, that either no sense at all, and so no sense of evil; or if any sense, then another life, and so no death properly. All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.英文原著 · 《The Meditations》
Democracy involves control; individualism does not. A vast number of people in passing from any sense of the right of another individual to control them have also passed out of the sense of the right of God or of the whole to control them. So that from a good many all sense of authority has passed. It is characteristic of our age. And it is a stage in our progress toward real democracy, toward true human liberty.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
But to compensate the true saint for this sight and sense of himself, he has revealed to him an accompanying sense of the absolutely transcendent beauty of the divine nature and of all divine things; a sight and a sense that quite overcome the heart and change to holiness all the dispositions and inclinations and affections of the heart. The essence of evangelical humility, says Edwards, consists in such humility as becomes a creature in himself exceeding sinful, but at the same time, under a dispensation of grace, and this is the greatest and most essential thing in all true religion.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
[Footnote a: The word "honor" is not always used in the same sense either in French or English. It first signifies the dignity, glory, or reverence which a man receives from his kind; and in this sense a man is said to acquire honor. Honor signifies the aggregate of those rules by the assistance of which this dignity, glory, or reverence is obtained. Thus we say that a man has always strictly obeyed the laws of honor; or a man has violated his honor. In this chapter the word is always used in the latter sense.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
So I guess in a sense I'm running away from the cops, but I feel like in another, truer sense, I'm running away from myself.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- I know it doesn't make much sense. - "Much" sense?美剧 · 《Friends》
a sense of their own infallibility, a sense of being called to a global mission and so on.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
It's just if a person doesn't have A sense of achievement in their real life, It's easy to lose themselves in a virtual world Where they can get a false sense of accomplishment.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
-- who could sense printed letters and even sense colors, just by touch. -- who could sense printed letters and even sense colors, just by touch.演讲 · 《Brain magic ~ Keith Barry》