 ... 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
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will bo confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. TBOK Till! ADDRISS BEFORF TOT -:ru TOME HKTOUOAI. SOCIETY, 1662. Unborn ages and visions of glory crowd... | |
 | 1857 - 656 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 said, on this occasion, of the excitement which lias existed, and still exists, and of the extraordinary measures taken to discover and punish the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 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. CLXVII. — FALL OF CARDINAL WOLSEY. FROM SHAKSPEAKE. The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost,... | |
 | 1857 - 690 pages
...burst >rth. It must be confessed, it will be confessil, there is no refuge from confession but sui¡de, and suicide is confession. Much has been said, on this occasion, of the scitement which has existed, and still exists, ud of the extraordinary measures taken to disjver and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...secret struggles, with still greater violence, to burst forth. It total be confessed ; — it will be confessed ; — there is no refuge from confession but suicide — and suicide is confession ! 13. MORAL POWER THE MOST FORMIDABLE. —Judge McLean, 1888, m enterprisesfrom the If. State* against... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 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. LESSON CXXVIII. CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. suited to such an hour as this. I shall endeavor to atone... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 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 LXV. THE ISLES OF GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. SAPPHO, (saf fo,) a Greek poetess who lived about 600... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 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. MASSACHUSETTS. Mr. President, — I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts, — she needs none.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 662 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...extraordinary measures taken to discover and punish the guiltv. No doubt there has been, and is, much excitement, and strange indeed it would be had it been... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1860 - 50 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." Confessions that are voluntary are out of the range of the present discussion. Of those that are involuntary... | |
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