 ... 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
 | George Washburn Smalley - 1911 - 474 pages
...persuasive address to an American jury, in the White murder case at Salem, with its tremendous epigram, "There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession." His, finally, the profoundest exposition of constitutional law, the reply to Hayne in the United States... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1913 - 444 pages
...important or significant words require emphasis by means of force; as, It must be confessed, it will be confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. — DANIEL WEBSTER Quality. By quality is meant the kind of voice — whether it is smooth or rough,... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1913 - 1226 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. 279. HONORE DE BALZAC. Lucien de Rubempre. (c. XV) ; and The Last Incarnation of Vautrin. (c. II, Miss... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 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...this occasion, of the excitement which has existed, und still exists, and of the extraordinary measures taken to discover and punish the guilty. No doubt... | |
 | 1914 - 634 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. DANIEL WEBSTEK. A TRUE STORY. " TTTHERE is the baby, grandmamma ?" VV The sweet young mother calls... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...born an American ; I will live an American : I shall die an American.* Speech, July n,isso. p. 437. There is no refuge from confession but suicide ; and suicide is confession. Aryument on Ike Murder of Captain White, April 6, 183n. Vol. mp 54. l See Scott, page 495. 2 The martinl... | |
 | Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 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." Exercise VI. — The following selections are full of pictures. As you practice reading them, try to... | |
 | Arthur Parker Stone, Stewart Lee Garrison - 1916 - 360 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 effectiveness of repetition is apparent enough; it is the constant drive, drive, drive, that finally... | |
 | John Reinder Pelsma - 1918 - 516 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. ******* 5. Gentlemen, your whole concern in this case should be to do your duty, and leave consequences... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 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...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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