 | Sandy Woolley - 2005 - 132 strani
...put to death as a spy by the British. Before he was executed he made a speech, concluding with these words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." He is considered an American hero and patriot. 21. This day is usually the beginning of... | |
 | John Marshall - 2005 - 156 strani
...God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The last words spoken by 21 -year-old Nathan Hale still thrill us, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Queen Elizabeth I died, lamenting, "All my kingdom for a few moments of time." "BUT YE... | |
 | John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 strani
...from the New London community, chose to say, immediately before being hanged by the British as a spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (Bartlett 484). These words clearly resemble those spoken by Cato as this paragon of Roman... | |
 | Dianne Matthews - 2005 - 386 strani
...Twenty-one-year-old Hale calmly made a speech before his execution. According to tradition, his last words were "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Despite some people's belief in reincarnation, we all have been given only one life. We... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 strani
...their forces. Others of our agents reported that, before he was hanged, young Nathan Hale said bravely, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' These should be the sentiments of all of us. Now I must end this note too soon, as we... | |
 | David McCullough - 2005 - 438 strani
...Hull, later, who reported Montresor's account of Hale's last words as he was about to be executed : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," which was a variation on another then-famous line from the play Cato. (One imagines that... | |
 | Cathy Duffy - 2005 - 326 strani
...personal history behind extraordinary events such as twenty-one-year-old Nathan Hale's heroic declaration, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Learning history as sets of facts to be memorized and regurgitated for tests might even... | |
 | Tim Schilke - 2005 - 294 strani
...blamed for starting a great fire, and he was publicly hanged on an apple tree. Hale's last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale was a great American teacher and Patriot, and his name has been smeared and... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb, Mrs. Burton Harrison - 2005 - 585 strani
...officer in furnishing him with pen and ink, were torn up by the brutal Cunningham. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The story of his heroic death soon became known throughout the army, and inspired his... | |
 | Edward F. Droge - 2005 - 320 strani
...Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln; Patrick Henry ("Give me liberty or give me death."); Nathan Hale ("I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."). • Space Explorers: Those who have dared to investigate "the final frontier." • GI... | |
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