 ... 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
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 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. WEBSTER. 120. THE VALUE OF THE BIBLE. ON casting a survey over the different orders into which society... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 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. LESSON CLVI. The Broken Heart, WASHINGTON IRVING. EVERY one must recollect the tragical story of young... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...fatal secret struggles, with still greater violence, to burst forth. It must be confessed, it mill be confessed, there is no refuge from confession, but suicide, and suicide is confession. 613* ANTONY'S OBLATION OVER CESAR. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Lend me your I come to bury Cesar,... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 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'. LESSON XCV. ODE FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE Iambic. Three feet and four. 1. BLOW... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1846 - 472 pages
...labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. It must be confessed ; it will be confessed : there is no refuge from confession but suicide ; and suicide is confession." Further, supposing, what seldom happens, that the murderer may escape judicial vengeance ; yet what... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 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. « Conscience ; that moral faculty of the mind which decides what ii right or wrong from the facu preieuted.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to bjrst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed, there is no refuge from confession but suicide — and suicide is confession. LESSON LXXVIII. . EULOGY ON HAMILTON. HE was born to be great. Whoever was second, Hamilton must be... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 318 pages
...the fatal secret straggles 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 great difficulty Mr. Webster had to surmount in the case was, the doubt in the minds of the jury,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 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 JINGKO TREE ON BOSTON COMMON. BY JACOB BIGELOW. THOU queer, outlandish, fan-leaved tree, Whose... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 580 pages
...best to have crime go unpunished. " Much has been said, on this occasion, of the excitement which hns existed, and still exists, and of the extraordinary...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,... | |
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