 | 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, and...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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 370 pages
...himself addressed several letters to Washington, and one, the day before his death, in which he says : " 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." The board of officers, as... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 356 pages
...himself addressed several letters to Washington, and one, the day before his death, in which he says : " 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." The board of officers, as... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 pages
...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...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. " Let me hope, sir, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 pages
...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...be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely indno» your Excellency and a military tribuna* to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 508 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. " Let me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me ; if... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 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. " Let me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me ; if... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1858 - 636 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, 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, if... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1858 - 634 pages
...give me remorse, I trust thut the request I make to your excellency, at this serious period, and whteh is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected....will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. spiracy, and his indignation... | |
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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... 
