. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ended by distressing length nature gave way: I am going at last, he whispered, and oh!I am grateful. Then after a silence: You do not know what I suffer. Godbless you, my children! I leave you to Marians care (Marian was his wife).Having said this, he drew a handkerchief over his face, and when theyremoved it he was dead. Of three great men in history a like action is recorded at the last , after he had drunk the hemlock, covered his face; Po
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ended by distressing length nature gave way: I am going at last, he whispered, and oh!I am grateful. Then after a silence: You do not know what I suffer. Godbless you, my children! I leave you to Marians care (Marian was his wife).Having said this, he drew a handkerchief over his face, and when theyremoved it he was dead. Of three great men in history a like action is recorded at the last , after he had drunk the hemlock, covered his face; Pompey, on 165 Y 166 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH receiving his death wound, veiled his countenance; and Julius Caesar, strickendown by Brutus, drew his mantle over his head. It was the 22nd of August 1818 when Warren Hastings died at Dayles-ford, the home of his ancestors, in Worcestershire. He was certainly one ofthe ablest men of the eighteenth century—few human beings have been moredevotedly loved, and he was probably one of the sweetest tempered and mostpatient men who ever lived. Authorities: Gleig; Malleson; Jamks, First Karl of After the painting by Sir Thofnas Laivrence. No. 77 The Death of James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury,Diplomatist. Born at Salisbury, co. Wilts, 9th April1746. Died 20th November 1820. JAMES HARRIS was educated at Winchester and Oxford; he after-wards spent some time at the University of Leyden, and concluded hiseducation by a continental tour. He commenced his diplomatic careeras Secretary to the Embassy at Madrid in 1767. Here he displayed so muchtalent and firmness in the negotiation which terminated in the transfer ofthe Falkland Islands to Great Britain, that he was appointed Minister to theCourt of Berlin in the time of Frederick the Great. He served afterwards atSt. Petersburg, where he was honoured by the friendship of the EmpressCatherine, who stood godmother to his infant daughter, who was bornthere. He ended his publ
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