But his words let us see how a man may sophisticate his conscience and quibble about his guilt.
So do not you sophisticate your consciences with the delusion that your responsibility may be shifted to any other person or thing.
Knight-errantry has fallen off a little in his hands from its first youthful and trusting freshness; more sophisticate times are opening upon us; and satire more frequently and bitterly interferes.
We create evil, consciously, by every wrong act of will that we perform, and then we talk of the origin of evil as a mystery, so thoroughly do we sophisticate ourselves!
He was flushed and restless, but he doubted if he would feel happier on the first-night with the entire Sophisticate body howling for "author.
As far as Clavering could see, she had every intention of making a Sophisticate night of it.
It is not easy to sophisticate the word horse, it is only too easy to sophisticate the word justice.
Such a unity will be no more than a dream unity, even though one term it the ideal and sophisticate in its favor all the traditional terms of religion and morality.
Men sophisticate themselves with talk about palliations, and excuses, and temptations, and companions and the like.
And philosophers sophisticate themselves nowadays with a great many learned explanations, which tend to show that a man is not to blame for the wrong things he does.
And He added the appalling circumstance, that however they might deceive themselves and sophisticate their conscience, they really knew Him Who He was.
We do not suppose that he intended tosophisticate them: the difficulty seems rather to be, that he has sophisticated himself.
He may sophisticate himself with falsehoods, put his conscience to sleep, and imagine that he has escaped all the penalties of evil; but he cannot escape from himself.
