...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...

...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...

...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...

...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/ 7 was the calm reply of the doomed patriot. These were his last words ; the next moment...

...sentence he was refused the privilege of reading the Bible or seeing a clergyman. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." SELECTION LVII. PATRICK HENRY was born at Studley, Hanover County, Va., May 29, 1726....

...sentence he was refused the privilege of reading the Bible or seeing a clergyman. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." SELECTION LVII. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, an American lawyer and statesman, sixteenth President...

...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 Eome of their vessels...

...name as his uncle, the famous martyr-spy, of Coventry, Connecticut, whose last recorded words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The Honorable John P. Hale was another kinsman. Sir Matthew Hale was perhaps of the same...

...was taken by the British and executed, at New York, as a spy, Sept Si2, 177(5. His last words were : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." man, which may well illustrate the spirit of our loyal homelife. She lived in some little...

...brutally destroyed. Hale, the martyr, met his fate with unflinching courage. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." This wanton cruelty was long remembered by the Americans as a justification for the utmost...