 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 pages
...the French beaten ? " And at length when told that they were defeated on every point, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied; I hope my country will do me justice." He then spoke affectionately of his mother and his relatives, inquired after the safety of his aids-de-camp,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1843 - 1154 pages
...extinct, when _ L" he exclaimed, in words which will for ever thrill in igos. every British heart, — " I hope the people of England will be satisfied : I hope my country will do me justice." Released in a few minutes after from his sufferings, he was wrapped by his attendants in his mili-... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1843 - 424 pages
...this way.' His strength i life was almost extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, he exclaimed, ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my countrv will do me justice ! ' The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1844 - 928 pages
...this way ! — Anderson, are the French beaten ? [This question he put to every one that came in.] I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! — Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them everything; say to my mother... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!" In a few minutes afterwards he died, and his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
 | Europe - 1847 - 568 pages
...an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, 'I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice.' The battle was scarcely ended when his corpse, wrapped* in a military cloak, was interred by the officers... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 456 pages
...strength was fast failing, and life was almost extinct, when, with an unsubdued spirit, he exclaimed, ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! ' The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
 | Charles Dibdin, George Hogarth - Songs with piano - 1848 - 468 pages
...unsubdued spirit, lu if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, ' 1 hope the people of England will be satisfied : I hope my country will do me justice.' The battle wai scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the officers... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice .'" The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 pages
...bitter agony of spirit which he had long endured was mournfully evidenced. " 1 hope," he exclaimed, " the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice !'* These sentences were among the last he uttered : his sufferings were not long ; he expired with... | |
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I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice! 
