The Last Words (real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women |
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American Archbishop of Canterbury asked assassin beautiful Bishop bless blood body breath buried called celebrated Charles Charles II Charlotte Corday Christian Church clergyman coffin dead dear death died distinguished divine dying Emperor Encyclopædia England English execution executioner expired eyes father Father Damien feel fell fire founder France French friends funeral Gautama Buddha George give his last grave Guiteau hand head heard heart heaven Henry Jesus Christ John John Wilkes Booth Joseph Blanco White King last hours last words letter live Louis Louis XIV martyr Mary mind never night Orson Hyde pain peace physician poet Pope pray prayer President Prince Queen Ravaillac receive remains rest Roman Saint sans-culottes Saviour say his last scaffold soldiers soul Spinoza spirit suffered thee Thomas thou thought tion Titus Oates tomb uttered Voltaire wife William William Cobbett wish wounded wrote
Popular passages
Page 312 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 269 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 223 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 96 - Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done.
Page 103 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 199 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Page 311 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 4 - Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together, And dost thou prune thy trembling wing, To take thy flight thou know'st not whither. Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly, Lies all neglected, all forgot; And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.
Page 34 - He said he was going to that country he had all his ' life wished to see, and expressed himself happy, hoping for salvation ' through Jesus Christ. Just before he died his countenance became fair, ' his eyes brightened, and he burst out into singing of the things he saw in
Page 27 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.