court of conscience

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He lays open obscurities, and is praised for the speech of truth; and in the court of conscience pleads much in forma pauperis, for small fees.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

One may have worried long in the preparation and preliminaries of the issue, one may bring the case at last into the final court of conscience in an apparently hopeless tangle.

From God the Invisible King by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

From that moment men have been wrangling in every court of conscience and society to secure decrees of divorce.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

In the virtues, so-called, he should discern only the rough notes of a general expediency; in fixed moral principles only time-saving predecisions of cases not yet before the court of conscience.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry