 | George Stillman Hillard - 1864 - 426 pages
...rebel foe. Sir John Moore, dying in the arms of victory at the close of a successful retreat, said, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied: I hope my country will do me justice." His country, in time, did justice to that great man. Sooner or later, the world comes round to seo... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1865 - 416 pages
...rebel foe. Sir John Moore, dying in the arms of victory at the close of a successful retreat, said, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied : I hope my country will do me justice." His country, in time, did justice to that great man. Sooner or later, the world comes round to see... | |
 | 1866 - 408 pages
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " 1 hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice!" In a few minutes afterwards be died ; and his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " / hope the people of "England will be satisfied ! I hope my country ivill do me justice /" In a few minutes afterwards he died ; and his corpse, wrapped in a military... | |
 | 1872 - 858 pages
...when his life was ebbing fast, those touching words, half sad, half sanguine in their earnestness, ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice.' Thus, on the t6th of January 1 809, died General Sir John Moore. Snatched away in the prime of life,... | |
 | 1873 - 758 pages
...when his life was ebbing fast, those touching words, half sad, half sanguine in their earnestness, ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice.* Thus, on the i6th of January 1 809, died General Sir John Moore. Snatched away in the prime of life,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1868 - 352 pages
...wished to die this way." He then asked, " Are the French beaten ? " and which he repeated to everyone he knew as they came in. " I hope the people of England...will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them everything. Say to my mother — " Here his voice quite failed, and he was excessively ^agitated. "... | |
 | Army - 1869 - 614 pages
...wished to die this way ! Anderson, are the French beaten ? " (This question he put to every one that came in). " I hope the people of England will be satisfied...my country will do me justice ! Anderson, you will • Colonel Napier, Hist. of the War in the Peninsula. James C. Moore, Narrative of the Campaign of... | |
 | 1870 - 672 pages
...leave me.' At intervals he added ' Anderson, you know that I have always wished to die in this way. I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice. You will see my friends as soon aa you can. Tell them everything. I have made my will, and have remembered... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1870 - 216 pages
...the unmolested embarkation of the troops. His last words as he died in the moment of victory were, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied ; I hope my country will do me justice." An urn of granite marks the spot where — " We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our... | |
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I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice! 
