| Martin A. O'Brennan - Ireland - 1858 - 464 pages
...ministry, in one great reservoir, your Lordship might swim in it." . . "I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity...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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...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 niy epir taph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. 12. I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world ; — it is the charity...silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no one who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice2 or ignorance asperse i0 them.... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - Ireland - 1866 - 568 pages
...into its bosom ! I have but on« quest to ask at my departure from this world, it is the charity oi silence ! Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man -who knows motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asp them. Let them and me repose in... | |
| James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 654 pages
...its CHAP, bosom. I am ready to die. I have not been allowed — ", '_^ to vindicate my character. I have but one request to make at my departure from...write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...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...write my epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity,... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...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...write my epitaph; for, as no man who knows my motives, dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity,... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...is run. The grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. 12. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...is run; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. 12. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; — it is the charity...silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no one who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice9 or ignorance asperse10 them.... | |
| Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...is run. The grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. 12. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity...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... | |
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