 | 1845 - 778 стор.
...one more touching or more deserving of everlasting remembrance than his. ' I only lament,' he said, ' that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " To the deep devoledness of this short speech nothing could be added. But now mark the course of human and... | |
 | Maria Campbell - 1848 - 506 стор.
...But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic dying words wrere remembered. He said, ' I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " Thus terminated the earthly existence of a man, whose country mourned the loss of one... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 стор.
...know they had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." and he finally put it on and rode iu it to Tappan." The place which had been prepared... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 стор.
...know they had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." walking the entry and around the sentries. 40 see that they are alert. Xo person whatever... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 стор.
...know they had a man who could die with such firmness.'1 His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." guard refresh/' continues Tallmadge. " While there, Andru kept reviewing his shabby dress,... | |
 | Mary Louise Booth - 1859 - 868 стор.
...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," was the calm reply of the doomed patriot. These were his last words ; the next moment... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 518 стор.
...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country " — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man in... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 стор.
...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man Jr-it1-->ir... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 стор.
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1866 - 544 стор.
...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... | |
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