 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...is run; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. 11. I have but one request to make at my departure from this world. It is the charity...epitaph; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose iu obscurity and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...grave. My lamp of life is nearly extinguished. My race is run. The grave opens to receive me, — and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask,...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... | |
 | Louise de Cléron (comtesse d'Haussonville.) - 1858 - 298 pages
...race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it is the charity...my epitaph ; for as no man, who knows my motives, dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1903 - 872 pages
...my lamp of life is nearly extinguished — my race is run — th'e grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask...epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1908 - 898 pages
...my lamp of life is nearly extinguished — my race is run — the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask...my departure from this world : it is the charity of itt silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...grave. My lamp of life is nearly extinguished. My race is run. The grave opens to receive me, — and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask,...epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...nearly extinguished; my race 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...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.... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...grave ; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask...epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - Ireland - 1866 - 400 pages
...sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him, delivered an eloquent oration, which thus concluded: "Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them ; let them . rest in obscurity and peace... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Ireland - 1866 - 568 pages
...extinguished — my race is run the g opens to receive me, and I sink 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,... | |
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I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence... 
