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En cambio, es una postura muy sensitiva y con mucho contacto físico entre los dos compan~eros.
IBM'ers invade TN 2007
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Once the phantasma of the object becomes an abstracted form in the possible intellect, it is wholly insulated from the diletto of the anima sensitiva (21-28).
Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006
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Whereas Aristotle in De anima had distinguished between the anima vegetativa, anima sensitiva and anima cogitativa (which distinction also corresponds to that of plants, animals and humans with their specific faculties), Plato had established three parts of the soul (Republic 434d-443e), which in the Timaios
Bernardino Telesio Boenke, Michaela 2004
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Herder admitted Baumgarten's definition of poetry as _oratio sensitiva perfecta_, perfect sensitived speech, and this is _probably the best definition of poetry that has ever been given_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Baumgarten contemptuously replied that he had not the time to argue with those capable of confounding his _oratio perfecta sensitiva_ with an _oratio perfecte (omnino!) sensitiva_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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After proceeding some six miles along the gradually ascending path, I came to a considerable stream, cutting its way through stratified gravel, with cliffs on each side fifteen to twenty feet high, here and there covered with ferns, the little _Oxalis sensitiva, _ and other herbs.
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I have just repeated upon this plant, and in a measure verified the experiments with chloroform and sulphuric ether upon the Mimosa sensitiva, made by Prof. Marcet, of Geneva, in illustration of the relations existing between animal and vegetable sensibility.
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Can you spare me a good plant (or even two) of Oxalis sensitiva?
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books?
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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WE next entered a vast forest of the most stately Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by nature at a moderate distance, on a level, grassy plain, enamelled with a variety of flowering shrubs, viz. Viola, Ruellia infundibuliformea, Amaryllis atamasco, Mimosa sensitiva, Mimosa intsia and many others new to me.
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