court of conscience

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

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

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)

Now, in what was this court of conscience better than these cannibals?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

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

The principle of Probabiliorism, likewise, is just as applicable to the court of conscience as to the civil court, since in both courts the aim is to get the truth as nearly as possible.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome