 ... become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 452by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.* It must be confessed, it will be confessed : there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. 1 Meantime the guilty soul, etc. We have here a. remarkably fine piece of psychological analysis. 8... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth ; it must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide ia confession." The closing words, on duty fulfilled or unfulfilled, are also very fine : — " There... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 pages
...must be confessed, it will be confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and •uicide is confession. Much has been said, on this occasion,...been, and is, much excitement, and strange indeed it would be had it been otherwise. Should not all the peaceable and well-disposed naturally feel concerned,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1886 - 246 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. EXTRAORDINARY GUILT. — Such is human nature, that some persons lose their abhorrence of crime in... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed. There is no refuge from confession but suicide ; and suicide is confession. The criminal law is not founded in a principle of vengeance. It does not punish that it may inflict... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 pages
...scene. Next, his essay on the secret, which he closes in these words : " It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Then came his analysis of the evidence, which could not have been surpassed by Mr. Choate, who was... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1887 - 260 pages
...of course added strength to the suspicion. Men called to mind the memorable words of Daniel Webster, "There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Whether the suspicion had any real foundation I do not know ; but if it was well founded then what... | |
 | Wisconsin farmers' institutes - 1887 - 258 pages
...of course added strength to the suspicion. Men called to mind the memorable words of Daniel Webster, "There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Whether the suspicion had any real foundation I do not know ; but if it was well founded then what... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. HAMILTON, THE FINANCIER. [From the Speech at a Public Dinner in New York, 10 March, 1881.] HE was made... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." i CONTROL OF THE THOUGHTS. Man is responsible for his thoughts — that is, for the thoughts he encourages,... | |
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