Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — THEIR DYING WORDS. [ARTICLE]

THEIR DYING WORDS.

r_ What Some of the World's Great . People Said as They Died. Pizarro—Jesu! Goethe —More light. Knox —Now it is come. Byron—l must sleep now. Arria —My PcetUs, it is not painful. Addison —See how a Christian can die. Chesterfield—Give Day Rolles a chair. Franklin—A dying man can do noth-ing-easy. Louis XVIII. —A king should die standing. William Pitt—o my country, how I love thee! Sir Walter Scott (to his family)—God bless you all! Socrates—Crato, we owe a cock to Aesculapius. Rabelars —Let down the curtain, the farce is over. Napoleon 111 (to Dr. Conneau)—Were you at Sedan? Lady Jane Srey and Tasso also used the same words. Lord Thurlow —I’ll be shot if I don’t believe I’m dying. Columbus—Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. William 111. (of England)—Can this last long? (to his physician ) Gen. Wolfe —What! do they run already! Then I die happv. Jefferson—l resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country. Cromwell —My desire is to make what haste I may to be gone. Demonax (the philosopher)—You may go home, the show is over. Charles 11. (of England)—Don’t let poor Nelly starve. (Nell Gwynne.) Schiller—Many things are growing plain and clear to my understanding. Fontenelle—l suffer nothing, but feel a sort of difficulty in living longer. Lord Elden—lt matters not where I am going, whether the weather be cold or hot. Dr. Hunter—ls I had strength to hold a pen, I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die. Marie Antoinette—Farewell, my children, for ever. Igo to your father. Charles Mathews —I am ready, Charles IX. (of France)—Nurse, nurse, what murder! what blood! Oh! I have done wrong, God pardon me. George IV.—Whathy, what is this? It is death, my boy. They have deceived me. (Said to bis page, Sir WathenWaller.) Louis XlV—Why weep ye? Did you think that I would live forever? (Then after a pause)—l thought dying had been harder. ' ■‘