| 1847 - 568 Seiten
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, 'I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice.' The battle was scarcely ended when his corpse, wrapped* in a military cloak, was interred by the officers... | |
| Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, lu if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, ' 1 hope the people of England will...satisfied : I hope my country will do me justice.' The battle wai scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the officers... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 456 Seiten
...strength was fast failing, and life was almost extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, he exclaimed, ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! ' The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 Seiten
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice .'" The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
| Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 Seiten
...bitter agony of spirit which he had long endured was mournfully evidenced. " 1 hope," he exclaimed, " the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice !'* These sentences were among the last he uttered : his sufferings were not long ; he expired with... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...all but extinct, when he exclaimed, in words which will ever thrill in every British heart.— ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied ; I hope my country will do me justice.' Released in a few minutes after from his sufferings, he was wrapped by his attendants in his military... | |
| 1850 - 216 Seiten
...unsubdued fortitude, he said at intervals, 'Anderson, you know that I have always wished to die this way. I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice!' " ' Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as you can." Tell them everything. Say to my mother .'... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 Seiten
...strength failed fast, and life was just extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied — I hope my country will do me justice !" And so he died. It is to be hoped that intense mental preoccupation somewhat blunted the suffermgs... | |
| Charles Mac Farlane - 1853 - 550 Seiten
...this way ! Anderson, are the French beaten ? " (This question he put to every one that came in). " I hope the people of England will be satisfied ? I hope my country will do me justice ! Anderson, you will « Colonel Napier, Hist, of the War in the Peninsula. James C. Moore, Narrative... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 368 Seiten
...all but extinct, when he exclaimed, in words which will for ever thrill in every British heart,— "I hope the people of England will be satisfied : I hope my country will do me justice." Released in л few minutes after from his sufferings, he was wrapped by his attendants in his military... | |
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