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" I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence... "
Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of ... - Page 145
by John Philpot Curran - 1811
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The Busy body, or Men and manners, ed. by Humphrey Hedgehog

John Agg - 1817 - 308 pages
...finished, and the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, — it is the charity...silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man, wlio knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them : let them...
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History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution, from the ..., Volume 1

C. H. Gifford - Europe - 1817 - 944 pages
...grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. All I request, then, at parting from this world, is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; let them and me repose in obscurity and...
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The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on ...

Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...grave; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask...epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them. let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity, and...
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The Cap of liberty

1820 - 298 pages
...the grave is open tw receive me, and £ will sink into its bosom ; I have but one request to make, at my departure from this world, it is the charity...epitaph; for as no man, who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, lei no prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; let them and me repose in obscurity and...
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A new and impartial history of Ireland. 4 vols. [in 2].

Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1038 pages
...grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. All I request, then, at parting from this world, is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; let them and me repose in obscurity and...
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History of the French revolution, and of the wars resulting from that ...

John James M'Gregor - 1821 - 466 pages
...opens to receive me, and I sink into its . bosom. All I request then, at departing from the world, is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them: let them and me repose in oblivion and...
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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 2

William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...he had misled, and concluded with that affecting appeal to posterity which can never be forgotten. " Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscurity...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1

1823 - 494 pages
...had misled, and concluded with that affecting appeal to posterity, which can never be forgotten : " Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscurity...
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The Inn-keeper's Album

William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...had misled, and concluded with that affecting appeal to posterity, which can never be forgotten. " Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them; but let them and me repose in obscurity...
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The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction [ed. by T. Byerley ...

Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...had misled, and concluded with that affecting appeal to posterity, which can never he forgotten : " Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscarity...
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