 | James Panton Ham - 1870 - 86 pages
...own words, extracted from his will, dated May 12th, 1869, but you can bear to hear them again : — " I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English...monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of iny friends... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 120 pages
...funeral — injunctions which have been carried out to the very letter — he thus continues : " ' / direct that my name be inscribed in plain English...monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country on my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1871 - 532 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband, or other such revolting absurdity. I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of ' Mr.' or 'Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband, or other such revolting absurdity. I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of ' Mr.' or ' Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 516 pages
...at its close in the language of his will. Twelve months before his death, these words were written. "I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English...monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country on my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 pages
...funeral — injunctions which have been carried out to the very letter — he thus continues : — '"/ direct that my name be inscribed in plain English...monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claim to the remembrance of my country on my published •works, and to the remembrance of my friends... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 590 pages
...words were written. "I direct that Language of "my name be inscribed in plain English letters his wm. (<on my tomb ... i conjure my friends on no "account...monu"ment, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest " my claim to the remembrance of my country on "my published works, and to the remembrance "of my friends... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. m out the thundering water ; what faces, faded from the earth, looked o without the addition of ' Mr.' or ' Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of 'Mr.' or ' Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 838 pages
...strictly private manner ; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial. ... I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of ' Mr.' or ' Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject... | |
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I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in... 
