text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"""When old age comes on, and repentance calls him to look back upon this black account, and state it over again with his conscience,--Conscience looks into the Statutes at Large;--finds no express law broken by what he has done;--perceives no penalty or forfeiture of goods and chattels incurred;--sees no scourge waving over his head, or prison opening his gates upon him:--What is there to affright his conscience?--Conscience has got safely entrenched behind the Letter of the Law; sits there invulnerable, fortified with Cases and Reports so strongly on all sides;--that it is not preaching can dispossess it of its hold.""
(pp. 120-1; Norton 93)",2011-09-23 19:23:01 UTC,"""Conscience looks into the Statutes at Large;--finds no express law broken by what he has done;--perceives no penalty or forfeiture of goods and chattels incurred;--sees no scourge waving over his head, or prison opening his gates upon him:--What is there to affright his conscience?--Conscience has got safely entrenched behind the Letter of the Law; sits there invulnerable, fortified with Cases and Reports so strongly on all sides.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ","",2011-09-23,Court,The Sermon read by Trim,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13727,5088
"[Here Corporal Trim and my uncleToby exchanged looks with each other. -- Aye,--aye, Trim! quoth my uncle Toby, shaking his head,--these are but sorry fortifications, Trim. --O! very poor work, answered Trim, to what your Honour and I make of it. --The character of this last man, said Dr. Slop, interruptingTrim, is more detestable than all the rest;--and seems to have been taken from some pettifogging Lawyer amongst you: --Amongst us, a man's conscience could not possibly continue so long blinded;--three times in a year, at least, he must go to confession. Will that restore it to sight, quoth my uncle Toby? --Go on, Trim, quoth my father, or Obadiah will have got back before thou hast got to the end of thy sermon;--'tis a very short one, repliedTrim . --I wish it was longer, quoth my uncle Toby, for I like it hugely. --Trim went on.]
(pp. 121-2; Norton 93)",2011-09-23 19:24:05 UTC,"In Catholicism a man's conscience could not possibly continue for long blinded;--""three times in a year, at least, he must go to confession.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ","",,"",The Sermon read by Trim,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13728,5088
"[Here Corporal Trim and my uncleToby exchanged looks with each other. -- Aye,--aye, Trim! quoth my uncle Toby, shaking his head,--these are but sorry fortifications, Trim. --O! very poor work, answered Trim, to what your Honour and I make of it. --The character of this last man, said Dr. Slop, interruptingTrim, is more detestable than all the rest;--and seems to have been taken from some pettifogging Lawyer amongst you: --Amongst us, a man's conscience could not possibly continue so long blinded;--three times in a year, at least, he must go to confession. Will that restore it to sight, quoth my uncle Toby? --Go on, Trim, quoth my father, or Obadiah will have got back before thou hast got to the end of thy sermon;--'tis a very short one, repliedTrim . --I wish it was longer, quoth my uncle Toby, for I like it hugely. --Trim went on.]
(pp. 121-2; Norton 93)",2011-09-23 19:25:22 UTC,"""Will that restore [the conscience] to sight, quoth my uncle Toby?""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ","",,"",The Sermon read by Trim,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13729,5088
"""A fourth man shall want even this refuge;--shall break through all this ceremony of slow chicane;--scorns the doubtful workings of secret plots and cautious trains to bring about his purpose:--See the bare-faced villain, how he cheats, lies, perjures, robs, murders.--Horrid!--But indeed much better was not to be expected, in the present case,--the poor man was in the dark!--his priest had got the keeping of his conscience;--and all he would let him know of it, was, That he must believe in the Pope;--go to Mass;--cross himself;--tell his beads;--be a good Catholic, and that this, in all conscience, was enough to carry him to heaven. What;--if he perjures!--Why,--he had a mental reservation in it.--But if he is so wicked and abandoned a wretch as you represent him;--if he robs,--if he stabs,--will not conscience, on every such act, receive a wound itself? Aye,--but the man has carried it to confession;--the wound digests there, and will do well enough, and in a short time be quite healed up by absolution. O Popery! what hast thou to answer for?--when, not content with the too many natural and fatal ways, thro' which the heart of man is every day thus treacherous to itself above all things;--thou hast wilfully set open this wide gate of deceit before the face of this unwary traveller, too apt, God knows, to go astray of himself; and confidently speak peace to himself, when there is no peace.
(pp. 122-4; Norton 93-4)",2011-09-23 19:27:57 UTC,"""But if he is so wicked and abandoned a wretch as you represent him;--if he robs,--if he stabs,--will not conscience, on every such act, receive a wound itself? Aye,--but the man has carried it to confession;--the wound digests there, and will do well enough, and in a short time be quite healed up by absolution.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17.","",2011-09-23,"",The Sermon read by Trim,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13730,5088
"""Thus conscience, this once able monitor, --placed on high as a judge within us, and intended by our Maker as a just and equitable one too,--by an unhappy train of causes and impediments, takes often such imperfect cognizance of what passes,--does its office so negligently,--sometimes so corruptly,--that it is not to be trusted alone; and therefore we find there is a necessity, an absolute necessity of joining another principle with it to aid, if not govern, its determinations.
(pp. 126-7; Norton 95)",2011-09-23 19:29:10 UTC,"""Thus conscience, this once able monitor, --placed on high as a judge within us, and intended by our Maker as a just and equitable one too,--by an unhappy train of causes and impediments, takes often such imperfect cognizance of what passes,--does its office so negligently,--sometimes so corruptly,--that it is not to be trusted alone.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ","",,Court,The Sermon read by Trim,"Searching ""judg"" and in HDIS (Prose)",13731,5088
"""Blessed is the man, indeed then, as the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus expresses it, who is not prick'd with the multitude of his sins: Blessed is the man whose heart hath not condemn'd him; whether he be rich, or whether he be poor, if he have a good heart (a heart thus guided and informed) he shall at all times rejoice in a chearful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watch-men that sit above upon a tower on high."" --[A tower has no strength, quoth my uncle Toby, unless 'tis flank'd.] ""In the darkest doubts it shall conduct him safer than a thousand casuists, and give the state he lives in a better security for his behaviour than all the clauses and restrictions put together, which law-makers are forced to multiply: -- Forced, I say, as things stand; human laws not being a matter of original choice, but of pure necessity, brought in to fence against the mischievous effects of those consciences which are no law unto themselves; well intending, by the many provisions made,--that in all such corrupt and misguided cases, where principles and the checks of conscience will not make us upright,--to supply their force, and, by the terrors of goals and halters, oblige us to it.""
(pp. 128-30; Norton 95-6)",2011-09-23 19:31:15 UTC,"""Blessed is the man whose heart hath not condemn'd him; whether he be rich, or whether he be poor, if he have a good heart (a heart thus guided and informed) he shall at all times rejoice in a chearful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watch-men that sit above upon a tower on high.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. The Sermon read by Trim","",2011-09-23,Inhabitants,•I've included twice: Watchmen and Tower,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13732,5088
"""Secondly, When a man, thus represented, tells you in any particular instance,--That such a thing goes against his conscience,--always believe he means exactly the same thing, as when he tells you such a thing goes against his stomach; --a present want of appetite being generally the true cause of both.
(pp. 148; Norton 101)",2011-09-23 19:32:27 UTC,"When told by another ""that such a thing goes against his conscience,--always believe he means exactly the same thing, as when he tells you such a thing goes against his stomach;--a present want of appetite being generally the true cause of both.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. ","",,"",The Sermon read by Trim,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13734,5088
"""And, in your own case, remember this plain distinction, a mistake in which has ruined thousands,--that your conscience is not a law: --No, God and reason made the law, and have placed conscience within you to determine;--not like an Asiatic Cadi, according to the ebbs and flows of his own passions,--but like a British judge in this land of liberty and good sense, who makes no new law, but faithfully declares that law which he knows already written.""
(pp. 149; Norton 101)",2011-09-23 19:05:18 UTC,"""And, in your own case, remember this plain distinction, a mistake in which has ruined thousands,--that your conscience is not a law.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17. The Sermon read by Trim",Negated Metaphor,,Court,"","Searching in HDIS (Prose); found again searching ""law"" and ""reason""",13735,5088
"""And, in your own case, remember this plain distinction, a mistake in which has ruined thousands,--that your conscience is not a law: --No, God and reason made the law, and have placed conscience within you to determine;--not like an Asiatic Cadi, according to the ebbs and flows of his own passions,--but like a British judge in this land of liberty and good sense, who makes no new law, but faithfully declares that law which he knows already written.""
(pp. 149; Norton 101)",2010-12-30 23:25:12 UTC,"""No, God and reason made the law, and have placed conscience within you to determine;--not like an Asiatic Cadi, according to the ebbs and flows of his own passions,--but like a British judge in this land of liberty and good sense, who makes no new law, but faithfully declares that law which he knows already written.""",2004-11-24 00:00:00 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter 17.","",2010-12-30,Court,•INTEREST. Use in Judge entry. Conscience here disentangled from Law. Separation of (internal) powers.,"Searching ""judg"" in HDIS (Prose)",13736,5088
"To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand. --Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind--as like your mistress as you can--as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you--'tis all one to me--please but your own fancy in it.",2009-09-14 19:39:06 UTC,"""To conceive this right,--call for pen and ink--here's paper ready to your hand. --Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind""",2005-03-11 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 6, Chap. 38","",2008-10-07,"","",Searching HDIS (Prose),13737,5088