Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hard treatment he had been given having made him nearly insensible. Trafford signaled but he did not hear. He signaled again and Upton just caught enough to know what was expected of him. The ball was snapped back and he went through his motions but he was not conscious of them. When taken to the quarters he remembered nothing of the play, merely that he had been signaled...
...that time, society was only dimly conscious of the great idea of courtesy. They gave this idea expression, and such pronounced expression that all society became pervaded with it. At that time It was one of these knights, William the IX., a type of manly prowess, chivalrous not as yet hardened into caste, and the knights were fit teachers of the people too, Christian as ceticism and feudal heartlessness had made both marriage and love little esteemed among the people. Marriage was tolerated only as a necessary evil, and love was decried as the snare of the devil. Against such...
...same intense regard for and dependence upon personality that turned Newman's eyes upon himself that made his religion subjective and his thought self-conscious. Indeed it has been made a charge against him that he had too little affection for truth in the abstract. His grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form...
...high place in the respect and esteem of both his instructors and his contemporaries in college. His presence on the football field last year and in the boat this spring made his figure familiar to all of us, and there is no one in college who will not be conscious for a long time to come, of the heavy loss we have sustained in his untimely death...
However, as the word hypocracy really means "acting" without any idea of deceit, we may apply the word to ourselves, remembering its original significance. The whole tendency of modern life, is compelling one to a sort of hypocrisy, or "acting;" not a conscious thing necessarily, but a way of presenting ourselves to people as we wish to be thought of, and not as we really are. This "acting" has crept by degrees into everything in daily life, and even into our religion. Men actually deceived themselves that they can play a part, so to speak, even before God Himself...