Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — DYING WORDS OF NOTED MEN, [ARTICLE]

DYING WORDS OF NOTED MEN,

St. Loafs Globe-democrat. “It is tfell. I—Washington. 1 —Washington. • _ • . “I roust sleep now.”—Byron. “Thy will be done."—Donne. “Is this your fidelity ?"—Nero. j “Then I am safe.”—Cromwell. “Let the light enter.” — Goethe. “And is this death?” — George *37. ■ v . 1 . .‘it. ‘ God’s will Bto. alone, ’’—Bishop, Kerr.—-- yfess—■ “God will save my soul.”—lturgh- - “ Lord take my spirit. ” —Edward VI. “Lord, make haste." —H. Ham mond. Lord, receive my spirit.—Gjanmcr. ' ~ .~ - “The artery ceases to beat. ’’—Haller. “Don’t give cp ths ship."— Lawrence. “It is the last of earth. J. Q. Adams. “God preserve the emperor. * — Haydn. “I am about to die. ” —Samuel Johnson. *-• ■ ——— "Independence forever.” —John Adams. “ Give Dayrolles a chair. "—Chesterfield. “I shall be happy.’’—Archbishop Sharp. “Don't let poor Nellie starve.”— Charles 11. “I have endeavored to do my duty."—Taylor. “ I thank God I have done my duty. ” —Nelspn. “I feel as if I were myself again.” —Walter Scott. “An Emperor should die standing. ’’—Vespasian. “ The best of all ft, God is with us.”—John Wesley. “Clasp my hand, my dear friend, I die/’’ —Alfieri. “ It matters little how thehead lieth.”—Raleigh. “I’m shot it I don't believe I'm dying. Thurlow. “ I loved God, my Father, and liberty.”—De Stael. “A dying man can do nothing easy. "—Franklin. “ My beautiful flowers, my lovely flowers. ’’ —Richter. “James, take good care of the horse. ” —Winfield Scott. “ Many things are becoming clearer to me. ” —Schiller. " I feel the daisies growing over me. ’’—John Keats. “What,is there no bribing death?” —Cardinal Beaufort. “Taking a leap in the dark. O, mystery.” —Thomas Paine. “Let the earth be filled with glory.”—Earl of Derby. “There is not a drop of blood on mv hands.”—Frederick V.

“I am taking a fearful leap in the dark.” —Thomas Hobbes. “Don’t let that awkward squad fire aver my grave.’’—Burns. “Here, veteran, if you think it right, strike.”—Cicero. “My days are past as a shadow that returns not.”—R. Hooker. “I thought that dying had been more difficult.” —Louis XIV. “O Lord, forgive me specially my sins of omission.” —Usher. “Let m» die to the sounds of delinous music.” —Miraboau. _ “It is small, very small,’' alluding to her neck. —Anne Boleyn. “Let the earth be filled with his glory.”—Bishop Broughton. “Let me hear those notes so long my stflace and deligbt.”—Moiart. “To die for liberty is a pleasure ind not a pain.”—Marco Bozzaris. * We are as uear heaven by sea as oy land.” —Sir Humphrey Gilbert. “I do not sleep, I wish to meet death awake.”—Maria Theresa. “I resign my soul to God; my daughter to my country.”—Jefferson. “I would not change my joy for the pmpire of the world.”—Philip Sidney. “Farewell. Livia, and ever remember our long union.” August Caesar. • J have sent for you to see how a Christian can die."—Addison to Warwick. “Into thy hands, O Lord! I command my spirit.”—Christopher Columbus.

“This Is the last flickering of a lamp that has long been burning."— Gen. Wool. “1 want nothing, and I am looking for nothing but Heaved.” —Phil Molancthon. “I have seen all things, and all things arc of little value.” —Alexander Severus. “I have lived long enough, and I am thankful 1 have odjoyed a happy life; but, after all, look ou this life as uotiiing better than vanity.”—John Locke. “Remorse! Eemorsel Write it! Write it! Larger! Larger!”—John Randolph. “We are all going to Heaven, *nd Vandyke is of tho company. "—Gainsborough. “Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict.”—Lord Tenterden. “I thank God that I was brought up in the Church of England."—BishopGunniug. “O Liberty, Liberty, bow many crimes are committed iu thy name.’' —Mine. Roland. “List us cross over the river and rest under tbe shade of the trees.”— Stouowall Jackson. “Crito, we owe a cook to Escalapius; pay it soon. I pray you, and neglect it noL"—Socrates. “I am dying Out of charity to tbe undertaker who wishes to urn a lively Hood!” —Hood* W ' I# •***

. - . - —•” these several year*, and art tbon afraid to die! Go out, go out.’’— Hillary. - “If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and delightful it is to die.”—William Hunter. “I pray you see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. ’’—Sir Thomas Moore on the scaffold. “My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly posses-1 pious tb my relatives.”—Michael Angelo. “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 life except death, and now, alas! I am to die, thouflh unprepared.”— Cxsarßorgi^. “Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hair.”—Cardinal Wolsey. “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. “Lord, enlighten and soften the hearts of my executioners. Adieu, forever, my dear children, I go lo join your father.”—Marie Antoinette. “Do not weep for me, nor waste your time in fruitless prayers for my recovery, but pray rather for the salvation pf my soul.’’—lsabella of Aragon. “I am perfectly resigned. I am surrounded by my family. I have served my country. I havo reliance upon God, and I am not afraid of the devil.” —Grattan. “Wbat is the matter with my dear children? Havo I alarmed you? Oh, do not cry. Be good children, and we will all meet ia heaven.’’—Andrew Jackson. “I am going the way of all flesh. I am safisfiea with the Lord’s will.’’ —John Newton. “My country! Oh, how I love my country!-"—Wm. Pitt, tho younger. “Be 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. “Thank God, I can lay my hand on my heart and say, that since I came to man’s estate, I have never intentionally done wrong to anyone.”— Francis Marion.

“Here is a book (the Bible) worth more than all others fever printed; 3 r et it is my misfortune never to have found time to read it. I trust in the mercy of God. It is now too late.” - —Patrick Henry. “Not one foot will I flee so long as breath bides within my breast, for He who shaped both sea and land this day shall ond my battles, or my life. I will die King of England."— Richard 111. “Father in Heaven, though this body is breaking away from me, and I am departing this life, yet I know that I shall forever be with Thee, for no one can pluck me out of Thy hand.”—Martin Luther. “I shall die regretting; I have always desired the happiness of Prance. I did all in my power to contribute to it, I can say with truth that the first wife of Napoleon uever caused a tear to flow." —Josephine. “Lockart, I may have but a moment to speak with you. My dear, be a good man; be virtuous, be religious, be a good man; nothing else will give .yog,any comfort when youcome to lie here.”—Walter Scott. “Thy creatures, O Lord, have been my books, but thy Holy Scriptures much more. I have sought theo in the courts, fields and gardens, but I found thee., O God. in thy sanctuary—thy temple/’—Lord Bacon. “I have meditated upon the state of the church, the spouse of Christ. I liaye fought against spiritual wickedness in high places and I have prevailed; I have tasted of the heavenly joy, where presently I shall be! Now, for the last time, I commit my soul, body and spirit into His bauds. Now it has come.” —John Kuox. ,