 | 1820 - 298 pages
...silence; let no man write my epitaph; for as no man, who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, lei no prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; let them and...repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men san do justice to my character ; when my country takes... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...the charity of its silence. 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 repose in obscurity, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1821 - 466 pages
...the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its . bosom. All I request then, at departing from the world, is the charity of its silence. Let no man write...ignorance asperse them: let them and me repose in oblivion and peace, until other times, and other men can do justice to my character/' Emmett was executed... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, 'till other times and other men can do justice to my character." Even this appeal failed... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, till other times and other men can do justice to my character." Even this appeal fail*tt... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...as no man who knows my motives dare vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them; but let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, till other times and other men can do justice to my character." Even this appeal failed... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...charity of its silence 1 Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man • who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse...repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, unlil other times, and other men can do justice to n>y character : when my country takes... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1825 - 532 pages
...receive me, and I •ink into its bosom. All I request, then, at parting from the world, is the charily of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for...repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain unde«crfted, till other tunes and other men can do justice to mv character.' Judgment was then passed... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 844 pages
...no man who knows my motives dares vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them ; but let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, 'till other times and other men can do justice to my character." Even this appeal failed... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. All t request, then, at parting from the world, is the charity of its silence. Let no man write...peace, and my tomb remain undescribed, till other tiinei and other men can do justice to my character." BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. The case of Blake... | |
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When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth — then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I HAVE DONE. 
