Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — Death-Bed Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Death-Bed Sayings.

Byron—l must sleep now. Addison —See how a Christian can die.* Arria —MyPoetus, it is not painful. ■ - - ' - ■ Chesterfield—Give Day Rolles a chair. Columbus—Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit. □ Lady Jane G rey and Tasso also used the same words. ■" v L ~ ~ Goethe —More light. Talma —The worst is, I cannot see' Hadyn—God preserve the emperor L Knox—Now it is coma Louis XVIII. —A King should die standing. Marie Antoinette—Farewell my' children, forever, Igo to your father. Charles Matt&ws—l am ready. Napoleon 111. (to Dr. Conneau) — Were you at Sedan? William Pitt —O my country how I love the! Pizarro —Jesus! Cabelais—Let down the curtain the farce is over. Schiller—many things are growing plain and clear to my understanding. Sir Walter Scott (to his family)— God bless you all! Socrates—Crito, we owe a cock to .iEsculapius. - Lord Thurlow—l’D be shot if I don' believe I’m dying. WJliam 111. (of England)—Can this last long (to his physician)? Gen.. Wolfe —What! do they run already? Then I die happy. George IV.—Wathy, what is this? It is death, my boy. They have de3eived me. (Said to his page. Sir Wathen Waller.)