Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN. [ARTICLE]

LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN.

“Throw up the window that I me# once more see the magnificent scene ml uature. * —Rousseau. “Soul, thou hast served Christ theee seventy years, ami art tliou afraid W die? Go out, go out!” —Hillary. “My soul 1 resign to God, my body te the earth, and my worldly possession* to my relatives."—Michael Angelo. “I pbay you see me safe up, and for my coming down let mo shift for myself." —Sir Thomas More on the scaffold". “If I had strength enough to hold a pRn, I would write how easy and delightful it Is to die.”—William Hunter. “When you wish to know what to do, ask yourself what Oh'ist would ht.ve done lu the same circumstances.” Horace Mann. “I had provided for everything in my life except death, and now, alas! I am to die, though entirely unprepared.”— Ctesar Borgia. “It will not bo long before God takes me, for no mortal man can live after the glories which God has manifested to my soul. ”—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 W'olsey. “Lord, enlighten and soften the hearts of my executioners. Adieu, forever, my dear- children, 1 go to join your father." —Marie Antoinette. “Be of good comfort, brother, for.we shall this day light such a candle in England as, by God’s grace, shall nevei he put out. —Latimer to Ridley.