Consciences

Examples

• We have already shown how the hold of the Catholic church upon the consciences of men was weakening at this time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The church in the thirteenth century was extending its legal power in the world, and losing its grip upon men's consciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the methods by which it sought this reunion jar with our modern consciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Why not make up our minds that we know nothing, and then, while we quietly follow the dictates of our own consciences, hope the best? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I leave them to their own consciences. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They did not want to have that sort of talk on their consciences on a day in which they might die. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Philip was resolved to rule both the property and consciences of his Netherlander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The bulk of these new Bible students took what their consciences approved from the Bible and ignored its riddles and contradictions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Perhaps, his brotherly conscience is touched—if there are such things as consciences. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Fly where you will, your consciences will go with you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And their consciences become strict against me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If the individuals in the Money Market oblige Mr. Micawber to sustain a great sacrifice, that is between themselves and their consciences. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• So long as the poor are docile in their poverty, the rest of us are only too willing to satisfy our consciences by pitying them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The church was losing its hold upon the consciences of princes and rich and able people; it was also losing the faith and confidence of common people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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