 | John J. Reynolds - Ireland - 1903 - 140 pages
...hundred years after his death, the locality of the young patriot's last resting-place remains unknown. " Let no man 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1903 - 758 pages
...occurs in his address before sentence : " The grave opens to receive me. I sink into its bosom . . . Let no man' write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Entertainers - 1904 - 242 pages
...an echo of the closing passage in Emmet's speech from the dock:— " 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. When my country shall have taken her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1905 - 230 pages
...an echo of the closing passage in Emmet's speech from the dock: — " 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. When my country shall have taken her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then,... | |
 | Short stories, American - 1906 - 594 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...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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1909 - 426 pages
...race is rim ; 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 50 epitaph; for, as no one who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1909 - 360 pages
...allowed to vindicate my character. 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 " (the words thrilled out clear and menacing); " for as no man who knows my motives dares now vindicate... | |
 | Alvin Victor Sellers - Trials - 1919 - 318 pages
...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 rest in obscurity... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1910 - 382 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...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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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 my motives dares NOW vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. 
