 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 σελίδες
...15. 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... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 σελίδες
...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...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 - 1863 - 396 σελίδες
...is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. THE FIFTH EEADEK. 12. I Lave bat one request to ask, at my departure from this world;...silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for, as no one who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice9 or ignorance asperse 1U them.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 σελίδες
...15. 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... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 σελίδες
...though the "unforgettable last paragraph" is agreed upon. She gives the close of the speech as follows: "Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives now dares vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and... | |
 | 1928 - 898 σελίδες
...is run. The grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask on 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 or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1977 - 242 σελίδες
...it could be said during the nineteenth century, "is known and dear to the hearts of the Irish race": Let no man write my 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... | |
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I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence... 
