 | Brigham Payne - 1876 - 140 sidor
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 sidor
...comrade in arms. On the morning of the Sept. 22. 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... | |
 | Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 232 sidor
...martyr, who in standing face to face with death, could exclaim in the devotion of his patriotism, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Besides these greater lights, there were lesser lights scattered throughout the whole... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 sidor
...apprehended and taken before Howe, who ordered him hanged the next morning. His last saying was, " I only regret that I have but one. life to lose for my country." 1776, SEPTEMBER 28. — The convention called in Pennsylvania met in Philadelphia, and... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 sidor
...multitude of spectators of the scene. Hale met death with firmness. With unfaltering voice he said : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." These were the last words uttered by the young patriot, then only a little more than twenty-one... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 648 sidor
...comrade in arms. On the morning of the Sept. 22 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... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - 1879 - 512 sidor
...story of his brutal execution, denied both a Bible and clergy, and of these memorable words of his, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," has enrolled his name among heroes as the young martyr of the American Revolution. In... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 sidor
...moment when the tightening cord was to crush the life from his young body forever, Hale exclaimed : ' I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " 47. A deep gloom at this time pervaded all classes of the Americans. " Thus far their... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 204 sidor
...the place of execution, and with his last breath spoke these words — words that will never die : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The Romans had a saying : " It is sweet to die for one's native land." But the speech... | |
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country... 
