...But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic dying words wrere remembered. He said, ' I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " Thus terminated the earthly existence of a man, whose country mourned the loss of one...

...their studies, they themselves, would be uplifted. w 1 only regret," said the martyr, Nathan Hale, " that I have but one life to lose for my country." One life to live for our country would be a stirring watchword in the schools. Precisely as the different...

...had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." and he finally put it on and rode iu it to Tappan." The place which had been prepared...

...a man who could die with such firmness.'1 His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." guard refresh/' continues Tallmadge. " While there, Andru kept reviewing his shabby dress,...

...had a man who could die with such firmness." His patriot spirit shone forth in his dying words, — " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." walking the entry and around the sentries. 40 see that they are alert. Xo person whatever...

...execution, demanding, as a last refinement of cruelty, that he should make a dying speech and confession. " I only " regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," was the calm reply of the doomed patriot. These were his last words ; the next moment...

...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man Jr-it1-->ir...

...should never know they had a man who could die with such firmness." The last words of Hale were : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The entire British fleet was within cannon-shot of the city, and some of their vessels...

...add to the bitterness of death, Cunningham added ; and when he heard the last words of his victim — "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country " — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man in...

...22. to a comrade in arms. On the morning of the twenty-second, as he ascended the gallows, he said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the...