 A thousand eyes turn at once to explore every man, every thing, every circumstance, connected with the time and place; a thousand ears catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to...  The American Jurist and Law Magazine - Page 1281832Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...catch every whisper; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into...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 made... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...minds intensely dwell «o the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle tin- sli^'li:- •-; circumstance into a blaze of discovery. Meantime,...its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feeU an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labor» under its guilty possession,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 1838 - 932 pages
...catch every whisper, a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into...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 made... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1838 - 284 pages
...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...The human heart was not made for the residence of snch an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a tonnent which it does not acknowledge to God or... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery. Mean, time, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather, it feels... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into...under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do 10 with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to fondle the slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery^)...Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret, /ft is false to itself; or n-ther, it feels an irresistible impulse" of conscience to be true to itself.... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 pages
...catch every whisper; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into...guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into ablaze of discovery. Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep...guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light', and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into...feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be truev to itself. It labors' under its guilty possession', and knows not what to do with it. The human... | |
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