| George Bancroft - 1866 - 544 strani
...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 - 524 strani
...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... | |
| Mary Louise Booth - 1867 - 462 strani
...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/ 7 was the calm reply of the doomed patriot. These were his last words ; the next moment... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 strani
...sentence he was refused the privilege of reading the Bible or seeing a clergyman. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." SELECTION LVII. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, an American lawyer and statesman, sixteenth President... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 strani
...sentence he was refused the privilege of reading the Bible or seeing a clergyman. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." SELECTION LVII. PATRICK HENRY was born at Studley, Hanover County, Va., May 29, 1726.... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1867 - 834 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... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1868 - 890 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 Eome of their vessels... | |
| 1885 - 980 strani
...name as his uncle, the famous martyr-spy, of Coventry, Connecticut, whose last recorded words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The Honorable John P. Hale was another kinsman. Sir Matthew Hale was perhaps of the same... | |
| John Gilmary Shea - 1872 - 902 strani
...brutally destroyed. Hale, the martyr, met his fate with unflinching courage. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." This wanton cruelty was long remembered by the Americans as a justification for the utmost... | |
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