Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many of my dearest friends. . . . While I feel...
...remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution...
...this problem from their attention now: all agitation brings it closer under their scrutiny. It is not entirely a false notion that the administration of the Treasury Department has been in part corrupted and much confused by the exigencies of enforcement. Yet the government does not do well to confess impotency too readily however impracticable a project it has undertaken...
...truth, like murder, must out, I shall have to confess that it was with many misgivings that I took up "Brother Saul," After reading his other books there was a lurking fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit...
...regard to British Foreign policy toward the end of the Victorian era the Vagabond is forced to confess ignorance. But he has heard Professor Webster lecture, he knows that Professor Webster has had an unrivaled opportunity to study this subject in his work in the British foreign office and his long access to the British archives, and he is going to avail himself of this easiest and pleasantest way imaginable to find out just what Great Britain was thinking and doing in relation to the rest of the world around the year...