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
| Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1881 - 392 pages
...hero was as noble as his life. " Here," teaid "I, Richard Grenville, die with a joyful and quiet ad, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought tlo, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honor; • soul willingly departing from the body,... | |
| David Hume - 1882 - 614 pages
...his last words were, " Here die I, Richard Greenville, with a joyful and quiet mind ; for that I nave ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honor ; my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Trinidad - 1882 - 478 pages
...and gave up his gallant ghost with those once-famous words : " Here die I, Richard 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... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 238 pages
...live long. When he felt his last hour draw near, he cried, " 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... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...sign of faintness, but spake these words in Spanish, and said, "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... | |
| Richard Nicholls Worth - Devon (England) - 1883 - 170 pages
...hands. Three days af ;er 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... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 154 pages
...his wounds. When he felt his last hour draw near, he said, " Here die I, Eichard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true THE END OP THE " REVENGE." soldier ought to do that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - American ballads - 1883 - 338 pages
...wounded, to die in a Spanish ship. " Here die I, Richard Grenville," were his last words, " with a joyful 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 honor and religion." August,... | |
| Great Western Railway (Great Britain) - Devon (England) - 1908 - 286 pages
...remembering. They are : — " Here die 1, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet KINGSLEY'S STATUK, 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... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - Slavery - 1909 - 484 pages
...uttered words which have become a sort of epitaph : " Here I, Richard Grenville, die with a joyous and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a...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... | |
| |