 Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is saf,e.  American orators - Page 329edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secrel is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything, as in the splendor of noon, — such secrets... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 pages
...secret is his own, and it is safe ! V^Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can bo safe no-where. The whole creation of God has neither...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing, as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of... | |
 | 1832 - 504 pages
...murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! ' Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret...and say it is safe-. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing, as in the splendor of noon, — such secrets'of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it, and... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...murder — no eye has seen him, - no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! " Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing as in the splendour of noon, — such secrets... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...safe ! an infernal nature, a fiend, in the ordinary display and development of his character. Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it, and... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...murder, — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! Ah, gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that Eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything, as in the splendour of noon, — such secrets... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 284 pages
...to speak of that Eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds everything as in the splendour of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even by men. True it a, generally speaking, that 'murder will out.' True it is that Providence hath so ordained, and doth... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 444 pages
...murder ! — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe /" " Ah ! that was a dreadful mistake ! Such a secret can be...where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe." Secret not safe The anguish of the spirit Ah ! there is an EYE, which runs through all the earth, piercing... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...CONSCIENCE. Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such 6* 66 BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER. a secret is safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither...and say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises, and beholds every thing, as in the splendor of noon — such secrets... | |
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