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
| Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pages
...Richard üranvillc, captain of the ship "Revenge : " " Иеге dio I, Sir Richard Granvillo, 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 Queen, religion, and honour, whereby my soul most joyful departeth out of... | |
| Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 506 pages
...to bear testimony to his courage and his patriotism. " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyous and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a...do, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honor." The public has been instructed through the press in the details of the treason of Benedict... | |
| Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1879 - 160 pages
...hands. Three days after Grenville died, with the noble farewell, " Here die I, Kichard 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 countrey, queen, religion, and honour. Whereby my soul most joyfully departeth... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...heart. As death drew near he said to them, in Spanish; "Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joj - ful 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 honor; whereby my soul most joyful departeth... | |
| Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 528 pages
...to bear testimony to his courage and his patriotism. " Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyous and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, righting for his country, queen, religion, and honor." The public has been instructed through the press... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 460 pages
...The death of the hero was as noble as his life. " Here," he said, " I, Richard Grenville, die 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 the body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every... | |
| Richard Nicholls Worth - 1880 - 292 pages
...hands. Three days after Grenville died, with the noble farewell, " 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 countrey, queen, religion, and honour. Whereby my soul most joyfully departeth... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...of faintness, but spake these words in Spanish, and said : " Here die I, Eichard Orenville, 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 own country, queen, religion, and honour. Whereby my soul most joyfully departeth... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Trinidad - 1880 - 452 pages
...and gave up his gallant ghost with those once-famous words: " Here die I, Eichard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought, fighting for his country, queen, religion and honour; my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Great Britain - 1881 - 504 pages
...appliances for delivering men out of the hands of a God of love : — " Here die I, Eichard Grenvile, with a joyful and quiet mind ; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour : my soul willingly departing from this body,... | |
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