| Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 Seiten
...offered himself a volunteer for that hazardous service. His dying observation was ; " I only lament, that I have but one life to lose for my country." He was born in Coventry in Connecticut, and educated at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1773.... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 Seiten
...c-invenience' sake, not mercy's, a si*ey were botu given him, for it was now evei!ngaging in their quarters at a distance from the city. He passed that...that the rebels should never know that they had a man Jr-it1-->ir army who could die with so much firr* remarka destroying his letters, destroyed, as already... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 Seiten
...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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1866 - 524 Seiten
...22. to a comrade in arms. On the morning of the twenty-second, as he ascended the gallows, he said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 Seiten
...22. to a comrade in arms. On the morning of the twenty-second, as he ascended the gallows, he said: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the... | |
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