casuist

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Every man is his own best Casuist; and after all, as Ephraim Smooth, in the pleasant comedy of Wild Oats, has it, "there is no harm in a Guinea."

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

He issued an ingenious pamphlet with this title: "The Casuist uncased; in a Dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter, with a moderator between them, for quietness sake."

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth

Accordingly there is not a Lady at Court, nor a Banker in Lombard Street, who is not verily persuaded that Captain Steele is the greatest scholar and best Casuist of any man in England.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Knotty Question Discussed," wherein is proved that under certain circumstances, Wrong is Right, and Right is Wrong, by a Casuist of the Sorbonne.—"

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)

So the Grand Old Casuist says, Speaking with the sager caution of his earlier calmer days.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890 by Various