1 That heaven was his conscience.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 2 "And conscience," added the Bishop.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 3 His conscience; that is to say, God.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 4 Madeleine, "the highest law is conscience."
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 5 The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his word.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 6 There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 7 We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has now come when we must take another look into it.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 8 It was one of those moments when he was exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 9 On scrutinizing this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch was the Bishop.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 10 No one could say that the passage of that soul before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did not count for something in his approach to perfection.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 11 The moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, contemplating the slumber of the just.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 12 This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 13 He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 14 He had introduced a straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 15 To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 16 The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his interest.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 17 The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man.
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