The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . ef unadorned words of Pitt tothe House of Commons, when describing the moment thatvictory was announced to the dying General he put hishand upon his brave heart, looked up and expired. His brain was evidently the last to go, for though thekeepers of the house had trembled and those those thatlook out of the windows were darkened, the mind preservedto the end a rational cognizance of the condition of thebody and of all its surroundings. A writer in the Quarterly Review has said that the so-called agony of death can never be more fo
The siege of Quebec : and the battle of the Plains of Abraham . ef unadorned words of Pitt tothe House of Commons, when describing the moment thatvictory was announced to the dying General he put hishand upon his brave heart, looked up and expired. His brain was evidently the last to go, for though thekeepers of the house had trembled and those those thatlook out of the windows were darkened, the mind preservedto the end a rational cognizance of the condition of thebody and of all its surroundings. A writer in the Quarterly Review has said that the so-called agony of death can never be more formidable thanin just such cases as this. Yet he considerately remindsus that persons so situated commonly attest that there arefew things in life less painful than its close. Such havingbeen the declaration of many of those whose lives havebeen passed with more than the ordinary immunity frompain, what is more natural than the satisfa6lion expressedby the dying Wolfe, with the approaching close of a life ofincurable disease and suffering, in the moment of the. ^ ^ g-^ ^^ I ^ ^ 3 1 I 1759] WOLFES DYING MOMENTS 21/ brilliant vidlory to wHich he had deliberately sacrificed it,the summit of his highest ambition attained, the gratifi-cation of his dearest wish assured ? How strangely akin to his dying words were those ofNelson, uttered under singularly similar circumstances. Thank God, I die happy, cried the gallant Wolfe, inthe hour of vi(5lory that presaged the fall of French powerin the New World. Now I am satisfied. Thank God,I have done my duty, moaned the dying Admiral, at themoment of the great triumph in which the naval power ofFrance was broken. The author of an address delivered before the NewEngland Historic Genealogical Society in 1859, in com-memoration of the centenial of the taking of Quebec, drawsa comparison between a passage in Wolfes final addressto his troops, written on the eve of the battle, and Nelsonsmemorable signal, forty-six years afterwards. The verythoug
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