The Last Words (real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women: Collected from Various SourcesC. A. Brewster, 1900 - 203 Seiten |
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... arms ; another says that she was a virago , awkward , dirty , insolent , rubicund , and fat ; and that if she had been pretty she would have been more anxious to live.- La Démagogie . We read in the Moniteur , " Charlotte Corday has ...
... arms ; another says that she was a virago , awkward , dirty , insolent , rubicund , and fat ; and that if she had been pretty she would have been more anxious to live.- La Démagogie . We read in the Moniteur , " Charlotte Corday has ...
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... arms against Honduras he should receive a pardon . The soldier was too brave to accept even his life on these terms , and he sent back word that he would see Honduras in an even more tropical climate than she now enjoys before he would ...
... arms against Honduras he should receive a pardon . The soldier was too brave to accept even his life on these terms , and he sent back word that he would see Honduras in an even more tropical climate than she now enjoys before he would ...
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... arms ; they broke open the doors of the prison ; they pulled out the two brothers , and a thousand hands vied who should first be imbrued in their blood . Even their death did not sati- ate the brutal rage of the multitude . They ...
... arms ; they broke open the doors of the prison ; they pulled out the two brothers , and a thousand hands vied who should first be imbrued in their blood . Even their death did not sati- ate the brutal rage of the multitude . They ...
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... arms in 1419 against the Emperor Sigismund , seems to have had a like spirit with Edward I. He would revenge the deaths of John Huss and Jerome of Prague , who had been cruelly burned at the stake for their religious faith . He defeated ...
... arms in 1419 against the Emperor Sigismund , seems to have had a like spirit with Edward I. He would revenge the deaths of John Huss and Jerome of Prague , who had been cruelly burned at the stake for their religious faith . He defeated ...
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... arms were not tied , " " cover my bosom ! " Alison , in his " History of Europe , " calls attention to the fact that " a similar instance of heroic virtue in death occurred in a female martyr in the early Christian church . Perpetua and ...
... arms were not tied , " " cover my bosom ! " Alison , in his " History of Europe , " calls attention to the fact that " a similar instance of heroic virtue in death occurred in a female martyr in the early Christian church . Perpetua and ...
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American ANAXAGORAS André uttered asked Bailly beautiful Bede Bishop bless blood body breath brother buried Cæsar called cardinal Caroline Ferdinande Louise celebrated Cesare Borgia Charles Charlotte Corday Church Church of England clergyman coffin condemned crown dead dear death died distinguished Duke dying earth Eddy Brothers Emperor endeavored England English execution executioner expired eyes Farewell Father feel fell founder French funeral George give his last grave hand head heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VIII Holy Ionian school Jesus Christ John Julius Cæsar King last hours last words letter live Lord Louis martyr Mary mercy mind murder never night Pætus pain peace physician poet pray President Queen Ravaillac rest Roman Roman Catholic Church saint sans-culottes Saviour say his last scaffold servants sing sleep soldiers soul Spinoza suffer thee Thomas thou thought tomb wife William wish wounded
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Seite 123 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Seite 97 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Seite 68 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Seite 4 - Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done.
Seite 55 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 10 - He said he was going to that country he had all his ' life wished to see, and expressed himself happy, hoping for salvation ' through Jesus Christ. Just before he died his countenance became fair, ' his eyes brightened, and he burst out into singing of the things he saw in
Seite 6 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Seite 91 - ... directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel; and he said, No; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end.
Seite 33 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Seite 56 - For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?