The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-19
Dying Words Of the Great.

Or. johnson, passing away amid q
tumult OF uneasiness and fear, said to
q who stood close beside bis bed:
"God bless you, my dear!". The eel
ebrated DR.. Adam, rector of the high
school of Elizabeth in the moments
of delirium preceding his death,
whispered, at is growing dark,
boys" stretching forth his hand,
"yOu may ge!" Queen Elizabeth,
of England, lying on her royal couch
was heard to mOan out the heartrend-
ing words, as she closed her eyes for
ever, 'all my possessions for one mo-
ment of time" But the noble Wes-
ley simply exclaimed, in the calmness
of spirit, "The best of all is, God is
with u.s." Poor Robert Burns, out Of
his head when he drew his last breath
cried, "Oh, don't let that awkward
squad fire owe me-" how curious,
indeed, that Thurlow Weed should
have cried out, as be passed away,
Pm shot if l don't believe Pm dy-
ing!r
as much for me as l have made you
laugh in my time !" SO said the t-ill-
liant wit of France, Scarron, as he lay
dying, that hour, with a host Of
weeping friends around him.
1t was a Christian philosopher like
John Locke who exclaimed with his
latest breath that solemn day, ooh,
the depth of the riches of the good
ness and knowledge of God !" How
strange to think that the great Mira
beau, after a life of such wild discord
chn,,1I houo nrinI ant fropfiooIl, l., ~,
he lay waiting for the last change,
"Music! Let me die to the sound OF
delicious music!" Washington, with
the smile of a saint, looked up into
the face of his weeping wife Tor the
last time, as she bent over MIN that
dismal day, and calmly said, as he
crossed his arms above his noble
heart, sit is WE'LL" And the last
words of Luther's friend, Melanc-
thon, are wonderfully striking, it
seems to me. The former asked him
that hour if he desired anything.
mo, Luther, no! Nothing. nothing
but heaven! :" he answered, and died
with a smile upon his face. The rul-
ing passion may be said to have been
still strong with Chesterfield when
he passed away, tor the last words he
uttered were, "Give Daytolles a
chair!" Did poor Cowper say any
thing before he died-he who had al
ways dreaded even the thought of
dying? Why, it is said he sank to
rest as peacefully as a little child.
All, but what did Hobbies the deist
say just before he gasped his last
breath? II am taking a fearful leap
in the dark" But the sweet Herbert
said, NOW. Lord, receive my soul :"
Dear Goldsmith's physician asked
him q few moments beiOre-he ceased
to breathe if his mind was at ease.
His mournful answer was, mo, it is
not" And yet was not Goldsmith
really al lovely a character at heart
as any man who ever lived? The
deaf Beethoven, whose whole soul
mad been full of glorious harmony
throughout his wncle life, cried out
at last, "NOw / shall hearW May we
not cherish the hope that Byron's h.
thoughts were of God and heaven
when he said at last, SO YEARLY, II
must sleep now" The sun was shin
ing very brightly in the room where {
the great Humboldt lay dying, and !
he said, as he watched the beautiful
rays, How grand the sunlight! 1t F.,
seems to beckOn earth to heaven!" 4.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson !
died the same day, but one said with :
his last breath, Undergraduate for '
ever and the other, II resign my :
soul to God-my daughter to my /,
Sir Thomas Moore said :
to an attendant as he assembled the =,
scaffold on the day of his execution, :
II pray you see me safe up, and for =
my coming down let nae shift for )
myself" Beautiful Anne Boleyn, ,
just before she knelt down to lay her q
head on the block, cIasped her neck .
with her hand and said, ut is small, j.,
indeed WWbat could have !
possessed Franklin to say to his
on his death bed, IA dying
nan does nothing we'll" What a r
strange question for Cardinal Beau il
iort Tor any other NAM to ask at the a
asst moment Of his life, "What! is h
no briEinE death ?" Scott said u
even when death was creeping very t
lear, II feel az if 1 were to be myself c
And Hood: tired out, whis- v
,ered only the words, dying, dy- il
ng !"-ZHe Scotsman. a