 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...had misled, and concluded with that affecting appeal to posterity, which never can 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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Autonomy and independence movements - 1845 - 576 pages
...—my lamp of life is nearly extinguished — my race is run — the grai e 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... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...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...departure from this world,— it is the charity of id silence ¡—Let no man write my epitaph : for, as no man, who knows my motives, dare noto vindicate... | |
 | Robert Emmet - 1845 - 140 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 at my departure from this world ; it is the charily of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...they cry to heaven ! — Be yet patient ! I have but a few words more to say. — I am going to my silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished...silence. Let no man write my epitaph : for, as no one who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Ireland - 1846 - 366 pages
...idol of my soul, the object of my affections. My race is run—the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world, it is the chanty of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...they cry to heaven ! — Be yet patient ! I have but a few words more to say. — I am going to my silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished...silence. Let no man write my epitaph : for, as no one who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 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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