 ... 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
 | James Vincent Coombs - 1891 - 420 pages
...the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must he confessed; it will be confessed. There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide ia confession ! — Daniel Webster. THE BRIDGE. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1893 - 386 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." So, in the Dartmouth College case, although that was not, as one might well suppose, a cause with which... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 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... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 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 : Murder of White. The following statement of the fundamental law of civil society, although... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 390 pages
...repeated does not come at the end of a clause the effect is much the same: " It must be confessed, will be confessed, there is no refuge from confession but suicide, — and suicide is confession." — Webster: Speech in the White Murder Case. " If it were not so, all but a very few men would be... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 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." And in the same speech, with what great ability does he set forth his theory of the murderer's plan... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please! h. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 6. L. 221. i. DANIEL WEBSTER — Argument on the Murder of Captain White. April fi, 1830. SUMMER (*«e SEASONS).... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 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 : Murder of White. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...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 1 274— SCHOOL. BEFORE SCHOOL. 'Quarter of nine ! Boys and girls, do you hear?" 'One more buckwheat,... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - 1898 - 440 pages
...struggles with still greater violence to burst forth. It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; (here is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide...extraordinary measures taken to discover and punish the guilty.2 No doubt there has been, and is, much excitement, and strange indeed it would be had it been... | |
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