 Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...  General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent ... - Page 406by John Aikin - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Flores, Battle of, 1591 - 1871 - 108 pages
...Englifh gentleman, who fpoke his own epitaph when he faid — Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind: for that I have ended my life as a true foldier ought to do, that hath fought for his countrey. Queen, religion, and honour. Whereby my foul... | |
 | Popular educator - 1872 - 848 pages
...to be near, he raid in Spanish, that all might understand : " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life...true soldier ought to do, fighting for his country, Qneon, religion, and honour, leaving behind tho lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant aoldior... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1872 - 272 pages
...hero, who, feeling his end approaching, cried out in Spanish, ' Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, Queen, religion, and honour. Wherefore my soul most joyfully departeth... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...stout heart. As death drew neai* he said to them, in Spanish, " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour; whereby my soul most joyful departeth... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pages
...wounds on board the ship of Bassano. His last words were : — " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind ; for that I have ended my life as a true Englishman ought to, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour ; my soul willingly departing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1876 - 708 pages
...said with his last breath in the heat and smoke of battle, " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life,...fighting for his country, queen, religion and honour." It was men of this stamp who entered into the projects of Raleigh to plant English people, with English... | |
 | Sir James Sibbald David Scott (bart.) - Jamaica - 1876 - 358 pages
...a few days after, and his last words were those of a hero : " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life...fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour. My soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every... | |
 | Popular educator - 1876 - 854 pages
...to be near, he said in Spanish, that all might understand : " Here die I, Bichard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for hie country, Queen, religion, and honour, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1877 - 478 pages
...voice, using the Spanish tongue, he says to those around him, " Here die I, Eichard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour ; whereby my soul most joyfully departeth... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...ship. " Here die I," he said to the Spaniards who stood round, " Eichard Grenville, with a joyfull and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a good soldier ought to do, who has fought for his country and his Queen, for honour and religion. Wherefore... | |
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