| Martha Joanna Lamb, Mrs. Burton Harrison - 2005 - 585 Seiten
...frankly admitted his rank in Washington's army, said he had been a spy, and had been successful in bis search for knowledge, and calmly received his sentence...21) also passed away Lieutenant-Governor Cadwallader Golden, at his country-seat in Flushing, Long Island, at the advanced age of eighty-nine, The Tuesday... | |
| Mary Mostert - 2005 - 270 Seiten
..."that the rebels should never know they had a man who could die with such ftrmness." Nathan Hale's last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The capture of Andre, according to the account written by Washington Irving, "caused a great sensation... | |
| Dianne Matthews - 2005 - 386 Seiten
...trial. Twenty-one-year-old Hale calmly made a speech before his execution. According to tradition, his last words were "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Despite some people's belief in reincarnation, we all have been given only one life. We... | |
| Tim Schilke - 2005 - 294 Seiten
...captured and falsely blamed for starting a great fire, and he was publicly hanged on an apple tree. Hale's last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale was a great American teacher and Patriot, and his name has been smeared and... | |
| John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 Seiten
...from the New London community, chose to say, immediately before being hanged by the British as a spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (Bartlett 484). These words clearly resemble those spoken by Cato as this paragon of Roman... | |
| Cathy Duffy - 2005 - 326 Seiten
...personal history behind extraordinary events such as twenty-one-year-old Nathan Hale's heroic declaration, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Learning history as sets of facts to be memorized and regurgitated for tests might even... | |
| Sandy Woolley - 2005 - 132 Seiten
...death as a spy by the British. Before he was executed he made a speech, concluding with these words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." He is considered an American hero and patriot. 21. This day is usually the beginning of... | |
| David McCullough - 2005 - 438 Seiten
...Hull, later, who reported Montresor's account of Hale's last words as he was about to be executed : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," which was a variation on another then-famous line from the play Cato. (One imagines that... | |
| Edward F. Droge - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln; Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death."); Nathan Hale ("I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."). • Space Explorers: Those who have dared to investigate "the final frontier." • GI... | |
| A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 Seiten
...their forces. Others of our agents reported that, before he was hanged, young Nathan Hale said bravely, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' These should be the sentiments of all of us. Now I must end this note too soon, as we... | |
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