 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 626 pagini
...and 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 - 1884 - 618 pagini
...and 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." Th# provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 620 pagini
...and 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... | |
 | 1890 - 1120 pagini
...statue will be placed. Just before the rope was put around his neck he uttered those memorable words : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The statue which Mr. MacMonnies has designed represents Hale as he made this exclamation.... | |
 | 1885 - 446 pagini
...spy. On it is no inscription save the date of his birth and death, and his last memorable words, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The situation is one of great natural beauty. From the eminence on which the monument... | |
 | 1898 - 864 pagini
...Henry Clay said. " Sir, I would prefer to be right than to be president." The last words of Nathan Hale were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." William Penn coined the phrase. " I prefer the honestly simple to the ingeniously wicked."... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 202 pagini
...evidently sympathetic spectators, and with a calm, clear voice pronounced the last words uttered by him : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country ! " * The place of Hale's execution has been a subject of conjecture. Some have supposed... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - 1885 - 296 pagini
...disgraceful death, Hale bore himself with manly dignity. When asked for a dying confession, he replied, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!" and with these heroic words on his lips he passed into eternity. 15. Thus died a pure,... | |
 | 1886 - 836 pagini
...be hanged as a spy the next morning. His execution took place Sept. 22, 1776, his last words being, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." His Life, was published by IW Stuart (Hartford" 1856). "HALE. NATHAN (1784-1863), an American... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 218 pagini
...evidently sympathetic spectators, and with a calm, clear voice pronounced the last words uttered by him : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country ! " * The place of Hale's execution has been a subject of conjecture. Some have supposed... | |
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