 ... 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
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...ROCHEFOUCAULD, Duc DE, (1613-1680) French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 327 (1678). 3 There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. DANIEL WEBSTER, (1782-1852) US lawyer, statesman. Argument on the Murder of Captain White, The Writings... | |
 | John S. Nelson - 1998 - 316 pages
...impression and suggest some of its consequences for the substance of political science. Confession There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. —Daniel Webster40 Little has been written about disparities between the actual practices of political... | |
 | Margaret B. Moore - 1998 - 308 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.41 When Hester heard Dimmesdale's last sermon, she could "detect the same cry of pain. What... | |
 | Craig R. Smith - 2005 - 310 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's emphases). The jury, already aware of the retracted confession and the suicide, had these... | |
 | LeRoy Lad Panek - 2015 - 237 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, [http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Great-Speeches-and-Orations-of-Daniel8.html]. This is precisely the kind... | |
 | George Howe Colt - 2006 - 640 pages
...closed in. One reads of criminals who kill themselves even as the police are knocking on their door. "There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession," observed Daniel Webster, arguing a murder case in 1 830. Newspapers often report the seemingly inexplicable... | |
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