 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 586 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. " Let me hope, Sir, that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, Sir, that,... | |
 | Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...purposes, and stained with no action " which can give me remorse, I trust that the request " which I make to your Excellency at this serious " period,...not be rejected ; sympathy towards a soldier will sure" ly induce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, " to adopt the mode of my death to the feelings... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1842 - 294 pages
...honourable purposes, and stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, sir, that if... | |
 | 1844 - 142 pages
...honourable purposes, and stained with no action which can " give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make to your " Excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, to " adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour ; " let me hope, Sir,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1835 - 372 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. " Let me hope, Sir, that... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...honourable purposes, and stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected ; sympatby towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, to adopt... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, as the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that if... | |
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Buoyed above the terror of death by the consciousness of a life devoted to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last... 
