| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
....moment was at hand, and asked if he had any thing to sayr htf answered — " Nothing but to request that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." He died universally esteejpu ed and regretted. The sympathy he had excited in the Ame*. lican army... | |
| James Hardie - Biography - 1805 - 536 pages
...fatal moment was at hand, and asked if he had any thing to say, he answered, "nothing but to request, that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." He died universally esteemed and regretred. The sympathy he had excited in the American army was, perhaps,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1805 - 414 pages
...all the spectators. He was asked if he had any thing to say ; " Nothing," says he, " but to request that you will witness to the world that I die like a brave man." This execution was the subject of severe censures ; and notwithstanding the usages of war, which were... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...when the fatal moment was at hand, if he had any thing to say: he answered, "Nothing but to request that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." In a few succeeding moments the affecting scene was closed. To offer any further remarks upon the late... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...spectator, he mounted the cart. Being asked at the fatal moment if he wished to say any thing, only that -" you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." Never, perhaps, did an execution of this kind more deeply interest the finer feelings of human nature.... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...spectator, he mounted the cart. Being asked at the fatal moment if he wished to say any thing; only that " you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." Never, perhaps, did an execution of this kind more deeply interest the finer feelings of human nature.... | |
| John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...before his dissolution, he was asked if he had any thing to say ; he answered, " Nothing but to request that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." " Thus fell Uie young, the lovely and the brave, " Strew bays and laurels on bis lionour'd giave.1'... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1813 - 350 pages
...fatal moment was at tiaud, if he had any thing to say : he answered", " Nothing but to request tfa.it you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." In a few succeeding moments the affecting sceue was closed. To offer any further remarks upon the fate... | |
| Charles Caldwell - Green, Nathanael, 1742-1786 - 1819 - 500 pages
...fatal moment was at hand, and asked if he had any thing to say, he replied, " Nothing, but to request that you will witness to the world, that I die like a brave man." In this answer is contained a virtual, but fair avowal of the fact, that the very fortitude and loftiness... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1821 - 792 pages
...the spectators. He was asked, if he had any thing to say : ' Nothing (says he) but to request hat yon will witness to the world that I die like a brave man." Theconduct of the American commander on this occasion is not to be excused ; and he intelligence was... | |
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