The very liberty of conscience which freemen demand, must admit this to be possible in the conduct of those who differ from us most widely in faith and politics.
Was it not wise, therefore, to shield conscience in Maryland, under the indefinite but unsectarian phraseology of "God's Holy Rights and the true Christian Religion?
He recognized no superiors, for his conscience taught him to deny any privileges to claimed superiority.
If we show, then, that Catholic conscience was untrammeled in Maryland, I think we may fairly assume the general ground as satisfactorily proved.
He was the last link that held her to the days when Lafe had been in the shop, and Peg would have given much if her conscience would cease lashing her so relentlessly.
One less firmly faithful to conscience would have acquiesced in this truthful statement; not so Virginia.
For the enjoyment of the liberty of conscience the emigrants to New England left their native homes.
In the performance of all the multiform duties of public and private life he stood approved by his friends, his country, his conscience and his God.
Soon after the reformation, a few people came over into this new world for conscience sake.
He stood approved by his country, his conscience and his God.
That important work completed he left the national Council carrying with him the esteem of his co-workers in the cause of freedom, the approbation of a good conscience and the gratitude of his constituents.
Let him think it his duty to give his vote according to his conscience and not depend on others to do his duty for him.
They formed the first church in New England where undisturbed freedom of conscience was enjoyed with a republican form of church government.
He had earned an imperishable fame and stood approved by his country--his conscience and his God.
He stood approved at the bar of his country--his conscience and his God.
If you presume to touch them, your conscience must answer for the sacrilege.
Conscience awoke in his seared heart, and he was filled with horror and remorse.
AS] If the kettles are not bruised, or ill-used in any other respect, the Northern traders have the conscience at times to exact something more.
But, indeed, if Sylvia had not been going, it is very probable that Philip's rigid consciencemight have been aroused to the question whether such parties did not savour too much of the world for him to form one in them.
But once when the old doctor's eye caught the up-turned, straining gaze of the father Darley, seeking with all his soul to find a grain of holy comfort in the chaff of words, his conscience smote him.
Neither of them spoke a word at first; but Hester's tender conscience smote her for her silence before they had reached Monkshaven.
And yet afterwards it was a sort of balm to his conscience that he had so spoken.
At that moment Philip, smitten by his conscience for his hard manner of speech, came back; but Alice did not hear or see him till he was close by her, and then he had to touch her to recall her attention.
Questions of conscience had never, so far, clouded Ann's mental horizon.
He may think that he can play fast and loose with his will without weakening his conscience or without impairing the truthfulness of his intellectual processes.
Their conscience is not worn outside, but inside, their bosom.
If conscience be outraged, the intellect loses force and the heart becomes clothed with shame.
If the intellect be dull, or narrow in its vision, or false in its logic, the heart refuses to be quickened and the conscience is disturbed.
My conscience made no protest as I answered: “Surely, dear one, it’s Jack.
She knows that I can act with a clear conscience on so definite a piece of information as that.
Have you a bad conscience that you sleep so lightly and arise so early?
But I refer me to God and your conscience, who are able to clear me, and I challenge the conscience of any one that certainly expecteth death, and desireth to die in the fear of God and with hope of His salvation, to accuse me of it if he can.
The liberty, won by so much heroism and so much genius, has not found in France a conscience to shelter it, a God to avenge it, a people to defend it against that atheism which has been called glory.
My "good evening" might have been that of a man with a particularly guilty consciencecaught in the act of doing something more than usually ignoble.
I did not think conscience could be entirely extinguished in the human breast, or that men could become fiends.
Even you yourself to your own breast shall tell Your crimes, and your own consciencebe your hell.
The man hated the woman because of her vicious life; he hated himself because, as hisconscience reminded him in lucid intervals, he was responsible for her downfall.
An uncontrollable loathing for the woman urged him on; conscience was disregarded.
Conscience had been stifled until its voice no longer troubled him.
Penny's consciencehad been at first greatly troubled by her sacrilegious marriage before a registrar, on account of the inevitable haste with which it had to be carried through.
She could not suppress a vague longing after something, she knew not what; and every now and then her conscience would be aroused, and she would quicken her efforts to be good.
A dangerous illness having, soon after, brought her to the brink of the grave, the fear of death fell terribly upon her, and her conscience was greatly distressed.
Her conscience was uneasy from visiting the opera, and also from attending Sunday parties, which were greatly in vogue.
There are two things of which a wise man will be scrupulously careful--his conscience and his credit.
Between a wounded conscience and a wounded credit, there is the same difference as between a crime and a calamity.
We give a few extracts from some of the principal works, to illustrate Hannah More's methods of appealing to the conscience and awakening spiritual concern.
Conscience had done its office before; nay was busy at the time; and if it did not dash the cup of pleasure to the ground, infused at least a tincture of wormwood into it.
Anyhow, I found it quite within my conscience to throw over mine in favour of subordinacy--and am not sorry.
The latter half of his statement was not strictly historical, but the speaker salved his conscience with the trite reflection that "all's fair in love and war.
Then the King saw his opportunity to ease his conscience and inquired of an old councillor if there were not a law which gave the king power to alter his decree if thereby he could satisfy his soul and acquire knowledge.
My conscience smote me also because of late, and indeed for years past, I had thought so much of Amada and so little of my mother.
But there were times when my conscience reproached me for conduct which I knew you would blame; and yet I dared not unburden my soul to you!
In a better sense of the word, the evolution of man's self-control and conscience is just as "natural" as the gratification of his animal instincts.
This public conscience has inevitably proved expensive, and the expense has had to be borne either by the state or by the individual.
For one thing the state has largely taken the place of the church as the organ of the collective conscience of the community.
Whether this growth of power in the individual and in the state is a good or an evil thing depends on the conscience of those who wield it.
It can hardly be said that the Anglican church has an articulate conscience apart from questions of canon law and ecclesiastical property; and other churches are, as bodies, no better provided with creeds of social morality.
By that device, it was evident, Sinclair salved certain twinges of conscience for keeping her bright intelligence pent in a Patagonian ranch.
Then he made it clear that he had resolved to abjure wine, and was only salving his conscience by a proverb.
You are not afraid of the morning air, and it is not on my conscience that I have robbed you of an hour's sleep, since you were up and around before I arrived.
With all the noise that followed the publication of the article, conscience became a burden.
Her conscience would never let her touch a penny of it for personal use.
And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked, what could be hidden in me though I would not confess it?
And now was the day come wherein I was to be laid bare to myself, and my conscience was to upbraid me.
Why not the same gradation in intelligence, conscience and spirituality?
Why is there no trace of conscience in the animal or vegetable kingdom?
When we protest against the teaching of this tommy-rot by instructors paid by taxation, they accuse us of stifling conscience and interfering with free speech.
If conscience is a development within the reach of every species, many of the million or more, no doubt, would have shown someconscience long ago.
If, however, conscience is a growth or development, why should it not exist in some measure in both the animal and the vegetable kingdoms?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conscience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
