| James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 páginas
...September 22d, without any form of trial, was hanged as a spy. He met his death with firmness, saying : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." In the meantime the British had seized the islands at the mouth of the Harlem river, and... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 274 páginas
...sister were destroyed, and his request for a Bible or a clergyman was denied. His last words were : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." An antograph manuscript of one of Hale's college orations, still preserved in the archives... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1875 - 518 páginas
...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... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1876 - 1086 páginas
...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... | |
| Increase Niles Tarbox - 1876 - 422 páginas
...British lines as a spy ; was detected and executed, dying with those memorable words upon his lips, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The American army, having now been brought into a position where it was hazardous to attack... | |
| Cornelius Van Santvoord, Tayler Lewis - 1876 - 462 páginas
...grandmother of Captain Nathan Hale, executed as a spy by Sir William Howe, and whose dying words : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," will keep his memory fragrant so long as patriotic devotion is honored among men. The... | |
| Brigham Payne - 1876 - 140 páginas
...Nathan Hale, the " Martyr Spy," the immortal words of whose dying message to his compatriots — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," — were the conception of the purest patriotism and sublimest devotion to country which... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876 - 358 páginas
...next morning. He was not allowed a Bible, nor the attendance of a minister. His last words were, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for mv country." » Near the present Thirty-sixth Street. < See p. 117, It 14. QCKSTIONS. — 5. What did... | |
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