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" I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is 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. "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 285
1803
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The Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travelers in the Principal ...

Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pages
...me and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph. Let my memory be left in oblivion and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men...
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History of the Wars of the French Revolution ...: Comprehending ..., Volume 1

Edward Baines - 1855 - 620 pages
...expired ; my race is finished ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. All I request at departing from the world, is the charity of its...write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives will dare to vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them; let them and me repose in...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...me, and I sink into its bosorn. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world : it is 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,...
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

1856 - 518 pages
...me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world : it is 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...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...me, and I sink into its bosom. 11. I have but one request to make at my departure from this world. It is 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 iu obscurity...
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McGuffey's New Eclectic Speaker: Containing about Three Hundred Exercises ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...receive me, and I sink into its bosom! I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is 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...
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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the ...

Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 pages
...me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is 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...
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Robert Emmet [by L. de Cléron].

Louise de Cléron (comtesse d'Haussonville.) - 1858 - 298 pages
...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 of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man, who knows my motives, dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity...
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O'Brennan's Antiquities, Volume 2

Martin A. O'Brennan - 1858 - 464 pages
...Lordship might swim in it." . . "I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph. For as no man who knows my motives, dared now vindicate them, let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb uninscribed, and...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pages
...receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world : it is 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 rest in obscurity...
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