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" I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country... "
Historical View of the American Revolution - Seite 342
von George Washington Greene - 1865 - 459 Seiten
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The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year ..., Band 2

Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 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." He was born in Coventry in Connecticut, and educated at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1773....
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Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull

Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke - 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...
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Works, Band 38

Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 Seiten
...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...
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Life of George Washington, Band 4

Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 Seiten
...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,...
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Life of George Washington, Band 4

Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 Seiten
...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...
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History of the City of New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

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...
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Historical View of the American Revolution

George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 Seiten
...allow his victim to come and sit hi it till all was ready. " He was calm," said this unquestionable witness, " and bore himself with gentle dignity in...that the rebels should never know that they had a man Jr-it1-->ir army who could die with so much firr* remarka destroying his letters, destroyed, as already...
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The History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the ...

Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 Seiten
...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...
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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 Seiten
...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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A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent ...

George Bancroft - 1866 - 524 Seiten
...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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