Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN. [ARTICLE]

LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN.

"Throw up the window that I may once more see the magnificent eoene of nature. ” —Rousseau. "Soul, thou hast served Christ these seventy years, and art thou afraid to die? Go out, go out!'—Hillary. “My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my relatives. ” —Michael Angelo. “I pbay you see me safe up, and for my oomingdown let me shift for myself.* —Sir Thomas More on the scaffold. "If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and delightful it is to die.”—William Hunter. "When you wish to know what to do, ask yourself what Christ would have done In the same circumstances. ” Horace Mann. “I had provided for everything in my |ife except death, and now, alas! I am to die, though entirely unprepared."— Cesar Borgia. “It will not be long before God takes me, for no mortal man can live after the glories which God has manifested to my aoul. ” —Toplady. “ Had I but served my God with half the zeal 1 served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. ” —Cardinal Wolsey. “Lobd, enlighten and soften the hearts of my executioners. Adieu, forever, my dear children, I go to join your father.” —Marie Antoinette. "Bb of good comfort, brother, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as, by God’s grace, shall never be put out.—Latimer to Ridley.