 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...nearly extinguished. My race is run. The grave opens to receive me, — and I sink into its l»som ! I have but one request to ask, at my departure from...epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repo*e in obscurity and... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 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...charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph. Let my memory be left in oblivion and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosorn. I have but one request to ask at my departure from...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... | |
 | Edward Baines - France - 1855 - 620 pages
...the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. All I request 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 will dare to vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them; let them and me repose in... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 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... | |
 | A member of the bar - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1857 - 562 pages
...is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask a< my departure from this world, — it is the charity...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... | |
 | Irish orations (English) - 1857 - 564 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 charity of its silence !— Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 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... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 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... | |
 | Martin A. O'Brennan - Ireland - 1858 - 464 pages
...have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your Lordship might swim in it." . . "I have but one request to ask at my departure from...write my epitaph. For as no man who knows my motives, dared now vindicate them, let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb uninscribed, and... | |
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I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence... 
