 | Charles Cassal - 1899 - 184 Seiten
...he to his old friend, Colonel Anderson, ' that I always wished to die thus I hope,' he exclaimed, ' the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! ' These precious sentences were among the last he uttered : his sufferings were not long : he expired... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1900 - 294 Seiten
...defeated in every point, he said, "It is a great satisfaction to me to know we have beaten the French. I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." Having mentioned the name of his venerable mother, and the names of some other friends, for whose welfare... | |
 | Charles Greenhill Gardyne - 1901 - 646 Seiten
...mother, and his " satisfaction to know that we have beaten the French," his last words were, " I hope England will be satisfied ; I hope my country will do me justice." The touching scene of the burial of Sir John Moore, as described both in prose and poetry, will ever... | |
 | Margaret Bertha Synge - 1903 - 258 Seiten
...saw there was no hope. " You know I have always wished to die this way," whispered the dying man. " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice," he added. And as night fell and the thunder of battle grew fainter and more faint, the hero of Coruna... | |
 | Herbert Strang - 1904 - 462 Seiten
...and the commanders who had served him and England so well during the bitter days of the retreat. " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." He spoke of Paget, asking to be remembered to him. "General Paget, I mean; he is a fine fellow." He... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 676 Seiten
...Colonel Anderson, ' he said at intervals. " Anderson, you know 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." ' That justice has finally been rendered by the publication of his diary and important papers, and... | |
 | Walter Wood - 1910 - 284 Seiten
...way," He lingered for a few hours at his lodgings, and just before he passed away he murmured : " I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice." It was almost a repetition of the glorious death of Nelson in Trafalgar Bay, 600 miles below Corunna,... | |
 | Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1914 - 500 Seiten
...then asked, ' Are the French beaten ? ' which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. ' 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... | |
 | Sir John Moore, lady Beatrice Smith Brownrigg - 1923 - 322 Seiten
...then asked, ' Are the French beaten ?' which he repeated to everyone he knew, as they came in. " ' I hope the People of England will be satisfied ! I hope my Country will do me justice I MOORE'S LAST WORDS 268 ' Anderson — you will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them — everything.... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 Seiten
...lodgings He lingered a few hours at his lodgings, and just before he passed away he murmured : ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice.' " " Sir John Moore was wounded on the battlefield and died at his quarters in Corunna (1809). Moore,... | |
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I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice! 
