The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-07-07
Last Words.


a small collection Of the final expressions OF
remarkable persons, as these are communicat.
ed by biogrsphers aud historians.
Socrates-( TO friend, when about to drink
the cup of poisou,) Krite, we owe cock to
Esculapius; discharge the debt, and by no
means omit il.
Mohame.-=-O Allah! be it so among tho
glorious associates in Paradise. =
Sir Hugh Percy.--I have saved the bird
in my bosom.
Sir Hugh, fighting unsuccessfally for Hen.
ry vi, at Hedgely Moor, April, 1894, used
this expression on feeling himself mortaly
wounded, in reference to the faith he had
pledged to bis uufortunat, sovereign, while 10
many had deserted him.
Columbus--Iu manus taus. Domino, com
mendo spiIitum meum. ''"
Piz uo.-Jesu. :s1I
AT that moment be received a wound in
the throat, and reoliug, sank upon the floor
while the swords of Rada and several of the
conspirators were plunged into bis body
Jesu! exclaimed the dying man, and tracing
cross on the floor with bis bloody finger |,
he bent his head down to kiss it.
Ferrar, Bishop OF st. Davids March 3Oth
1855, ION being chained to the stake at Car.
marthen Cross If l stir through the pains
of my burning, believe not the doctrines 1
have taught.
John Kuox.--Now il is come.
DR.. Done.--Thy will be done.
lie lay fifteen days, earnestly expecting bis
change, and in the last hour of his last day, as
bis body melted away and vapored into spirit
bis soul having. l verely believe some reve-
lation Of the beatifc vision, he said, l were
miserable if might not die; and after those
words closed many periods Of bis fraint breath
by saying often Thy kingdom come, thy
will be done.
George Herbert.--And now, Lord-Lord,
now receive my soul.
Ralegh.--(To tho executiouer, who was
pausing) Why dost thou not strike?-
Strike, man!
Grotitus .-Be serious.
Robert Cecil, first Earl Of Salisbury. Ease
and pleasure quake TO hear of death; but my
life full of miseries, desireth to be dissolved.
It may be remarked that Lord Salisbury
died when, to oil appearances, he was at the
summit Of earthly glory.
Charles 1.-Remember.
To Bishop Juxon, on the scaffold supposed
to refer to message to his son commanding
him to forgive his enemes aud murderers.
Cromwell.-It is not my design to drink
or sleep, but my design is to make what haste
l can TO be gone.
William III.-Csn this las. lopgi ITO bis
physiciau)
Gen. Wolfe.-What. do they run already
Then die happy.
Abiding to the intelligence given him %
hesay wounded, that the French were beaten.
Hayden preserve the Emperor.
Haller.-The artery ceases to beat.
Earl Of Observation-Disclosures Dayrolles q
chair. ID
DR.. franklin dyisg man can do moth
ing easy.
To his daughter, who bad advised him 10
change his position ia bed that he ight
breathe more easily. These were his last
words recorded in his biography: but they
were pronounced a few days before his de-
cease. afiC -rf fe rtfo .
DR.. William Hunter Had ! strength to
hold pen. 1 would write how easy and
pleasant q thing ii is to die. j
Goldsmilh.-It then occurred TO Doctor
luton to put very pregnant question to bis
patient. He said: Your pulse is in greater
disorder than it should be with the degree ol
fever you have. Is xoS mind at sasss
No Is not was Goldrmith's melancholy
answer.
They are the last wosds NE ara 10 hear
him utter in this world. na
Johusou. God bless you my dear.
To Miss Morsis, fr;ends daughter whc
came 10 him at last TO ask bis blessing.
Gibbon.-Mon Disul Mon Dieu!
Burus,-That scoupdrel. Matthew Penn
The solicitor who had written 10 him about
debt, and Inspired the poor poet with fear
Of Jail. ~