 | 1851 - 364 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,...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, "... | |
 | Youth - 1852 - 302 pages
...honorable 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,...soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 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,...soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of... | |
 | 534 pages
...me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency, at this serious period, and which ia to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy...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... | |
 | Edward N. Marks - 1854 - 394 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... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 526 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... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 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,...soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will surely induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. WASHINGTON'S HIGH SENSE OF DUTY. " list me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with... | |
 | American periodicals - 1856 - 704 pages
...devoted to honorable pursuits and stained with no action that can give me Remorse, I trust the request I make to Your Excellency at this serious period and...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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 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,...be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely indnce your Excellency, and a military tribunal, to adopt the mode of my death to the feelings of a... | |
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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... 
