| Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke - 1848 - 512 Seiten
...to bear me witness, that I meet my fate like a brave man." The words of Hale were, " I only lament, that I have but one life to lose for my country." The one, in the event of success expected promotion and pecuniary rewards ; the other, looked only for... | |
| Maria Campbell - 1848 - 506 Seiten
...But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic dying words wrere remembered. He said, ' I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " Thus terminated the earthly existence of a man, whose country mourned the loss of one... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 Seiten
...had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." and he finally put it on and rode iu it to Tappan." The place which had been prepared... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 Seiten
...a man who could die with such firmness.'1 His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." guard refresh/' continues Tallmadge. " While there, Andru kept reviewing his shabby dress,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 Seiten
...had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." walking the entry and around the sentries. 40 see that they are alert. Xo person whatever... | |
| Mary Louise Booth - 1859 - 868 Seiten
...execution, demanding, as a last refinement of cruelty, that he should make a dying speech and confession. " I only " regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," was the calm reply of the doomed patriot. These were his last words ; the next moment... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1864 - 504 Seiten
...Bible, were denied him ; and letters which he had written to his mother and sisters were destroyed. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country." CHAPTER VIII. WASHINGTON'S RETREAT. — BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS. 318. ON... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 Seiten
...the rebels should never know they had a man who could die with such firmness." The last words of Hale were : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The entire British fleet was within cannon-shot of the city, and some of their vessels had passed up the... | |
| George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 Seiten
...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man Jr-it1-->ir... | |
| George Washington Greene - 1865 - 518 Seiten
...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country " — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man in... | |
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