| Washington Irving - 1876 - 766 strani
...judge, ordered for execution tlie next morning at daybreak, liis patriot spirit shone forth in his dyine words — "I only regret" that I have but one life to lose for inj country. 23 liim, I delivered him confidential papers in my OWB b writing to deliver to your Kxct/llem-v."... | |
| Cornelius Van Santvoord, Tayler Lewis - 1876 - 418 strani
...was the grandmother of Captain Nathan Hale, executed as a spy by Sir William Howe, and whose dying words : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," will keep his memory fragrant so long as patriotic devotion is honored among men. The... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876 - 358 strani
...next morning. He was not allowed a Bible, nor the attendance of a minister. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for mv country." » Near the present Thirty-sixth Street. < See p. 117, It 14. QCKSTIONS. — 5. What did... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 strani
...comrade in arms. On the morning of the Sept. 22. 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... | |
| Increase Niles Tarbox - 1876 - 422 strani
...British lines as a spy ; was detected and executed, dying with those memorable words upon his lips, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The American army, having now been brought into a position where it was hazardous to attack... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1876 - 1086 strani
...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... | |
| Brigham Payne - 1876 - 140 strani
...Nathan Hale, the " Martyr Spy," the immortal words of whose dying message to his compatriots — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," — were the conception of the purest patriotism and sublimest devotion to country which... | |
| Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 232 strani
...martyr, who in standing face to face with death, could exclaim in the devotion of his patriotism, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Besides these greater lights, there were lesser lights scattered throughout the whole... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 strani
...multitude of spectators of the scene. Hale met death with firmness. With unfaltering voice he said : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." These were the last words uttered by the young patriot, then only a little more than twenty-one... | |
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