 | Joel Cook - 1889 - 302 pagini
...vigor of earnest youth, and with outstretched hands actually appears to speak his memorable words: " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The battered and weather-worn gravestone that originally covered Putnam's grave is also... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1889 - 262 pagini
...peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service are imperious." His last wordswere, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country !" CHAPTER XIX. THK RESUirEl) BABY. IN the summer of 1781 efforts were made »y the British... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 pagini
...shall all hang separately. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-90. HIS LAST WORDS, NEW YORK, 22 SEPTEMBER, 1776. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my Country. NATHAN HALE. 1755-76. " BROTHER JONATHAN." AVe must consult Brother Jonathan. — Meaning his secretary and aide,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed - 1891 - 268 pagini
...back to Washington's camp Captain Hale was captured, and, soon after, was hanged. 6. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." What to See and Do.—Copy the fourth and the sixth sentence. Find the chief words in... | |
 | 1895 - 822 pagini
...speak his last words. Hale's lofty glance rested on him for an instant. Then in a firm voice he said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country ! ' ' All that a man hath will he give for his life, and when he gives his life, with all... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1892 - 710 pagini
...good became honorable by being necessary " ; the soul of a martyr patriot inspired his last words : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." l The New- York of 1777 had but few of the attractions over which travelers in more quiet... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 pagini
...singular that the untimely fate of the " Martyr Spy of the American Revolution," whose dying words, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," form his most fitting eulogy, is nowhere alluded to by Washington. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1892 - 528 pagini
...republic ? May we substitute on the tomb of Captain Nathan Hale for the sublime and patriotic words, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," the inscription, "- 1 used all my powers exclusively for my own welfare " ? When our country... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1892 - 946 pagini
...BRIDGE. BROOKLYN : PUTNAM STATUE. lofty granite pyramid in South Coventry, bearing his dying words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." There is also a statue of Hale in the State-House. A granite obelisk on the heights of... | |
 | Margaret Tufts Yardley - 1893 - 464 pagini
...information While inside the enemy's lines he was taken prisoner and hanged as a spy. His last words were: '' I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Francis M. Finch sings of him thus: " To drum beat and heart-beat A soldier marches by... | |
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