Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself ; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labours under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not... Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 171by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 pages
...to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...by a torment which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture ia devouring it, i and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...by a torment, which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven or... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...to itself, or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...by a torment, which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance either from heaven or... | |
| 1832 - 504 pages
...to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...by a torment, which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven or... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...thousand eyes turn at once to explore every man, everything, every circumstance connected with tlie time and place; a thousand ears catch every whisper;...by a torment, which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven or... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 pages
...conscience to be true to itself. It laborĀ» under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do witii it. The human heart was not made for the residence...finds itself preyed on by a torment/ which it does D'< acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and Urja ask no sympathy or assistance,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...to itself ; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...by a torment which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven or... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment, which it dares not acknowledge to God or man. 10. A vulture is devouring it, and it can ask no assistance or... | |
| Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...to itself; or rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to...inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment, which it dares not acknowledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it ; and it can ask no sympathy or assistance,... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do 10 with it. The human heart was not made for the residence...such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a tor* ment which it does not acknowledge to God nor man. J^* vulture is devouring it, and it can ask... | |
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