...for execution tlie next morning at daybreak, liis patriot spirit shone forth in his dyine words — "I only regret" that I have but one life to lose for inj country. 23 liim, I delivered him confidential papers in my OWB b writing to deliver to your Kxct/llem-v."...

...comrade in arms. On the morning of the Sept. 22. twenty-second, as he ascended the gallows, he said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the...

...martyr, who in standing face to face with death, could exclaim in the devotion of his patriotism, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Besides these greater lights, there were lesser lights scattered throughout the whole...

...multitude of spectators of the scene. Hale met death with firmness. With unfaltering voice he said : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." These were the last words uttered by the young patriot, then only a little more than twenty-one...

...martyr, who in standing face to face with death, could exclaim in the devotion of his patriotism, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Besides these greater lights, there were lesser lights scattered throughout the whole...

...apprehended and taken before Howe, who ordered him hanged the next morning. His last saying was, " I only regret that I have but one. life to lose for my country." 1776, SEPTEMBER 28. — The convention called in Pennsylvania met in Philadelphia, and...

...comrade in arms. On the morning of the Sept. 22 twenty-second, as he ascended the gallows, he said : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The provost-marshal destroyed his letters, as if grudging his friends a knowledge of the...

...moment when the tightening cord was to crush the life from his young body forever, Hale exclaimed : ' I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.' " 47. A deep gloom at this time pervaded all classes of the Americans. " Thus far their...

...story of his brutal execution, denied both a Bible and clergy, and of these memorable words of his, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," has enrolled his name among heroes as the young martyr of the American Revolution. In...

...ordered for execution the next morning. He died a patriot and a hero, saying with his last breath : " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." < \«tbim Hi,lr ».„, born in Connecticut, in 1755. After being graduated at Yalr College,...