| Abiel Holmes - 1813 - 478 Seiten
...offered himself a volunteer for that hazardous service. His dying observation was ; " I only lament, that I have but one life to lose for my country." This estimable man was born in Coventry, in Connecticut, and educated at Yale College, where he graduated... | |
| Maria Campbell - 1848 - 506 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1851 - 212 Seiten
...his character the soldier, the patriot and the scholar. His dying observation was, " I only lament, that I have but one life to lose for my country." This estimable man was born in Coventry, Ct. and educated at Yale College, where be was graduated in 1773.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 Seiten
...execution and spirit of expression, aud are by the most skillful of American artists. " MY ONLY REGRET is, THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO LOSE FOR MY COUNTRY." This Engraving is a Cabinet picture. Each subscriber is given a copy, which is separate from the work, that... | |
| Washington Irving - 1861 - 502 Seiten
...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." This he refused to take for some time ; but I insisted on it, and he finally put it on and rode in it to... | |
| George Washington Greene - 1865 - 518 Seiten
...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... | |
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