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The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth ... - Page 72
by James Parton - 1872 - 548 pages
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 35

Fashion - 462 pages
...well."— Washington. " Independence for ever." — Adams. " It is the last of earth."- JQ Adams. " I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." — Harrison. " I have endeavoured to do my duty."— Taylor. " There is not a drop of blood on my...
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Medical and Physiological Commentaries, Volume 2

Martyn Paine - Medicine - 1840 - 830 pages
...4th. The last words uttered by the President, as heard by Dr. Worthington, where these : " Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." THO. MILLER, II. D. A iteming I'hy-ic uu ROBERT TROUP PAINE TO HARVA Kl> COtl^EGK A LEGACY IN HIS SAME...
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The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States ..., Volume 2

United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 968 pages
...successor, or some official associate in the government, said: " SlR, I WISH YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENT. I WISH THEM CARRIED OUT. I ASK NOTHING MORE." He expired a little after midnight, surrounded by those members of his family who were in the city,...
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Sketches of the Civil and Military Services of William Henry Harrison

Charles Stewart Todd, Benjamin Drake - 1847 - 232 pages
...4th. The last words uttered by the President, as heard by Dr. Worthington, were these: "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." THOMAS MILLER, MD Attending Physician. FRED. MAY, MD NW WORTHINGTON, MD JC HALL, MD ASHTON ALEXANDER,...
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The Lives of the Presidents of the United States: Embracing a Brief History ...

Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1848 - 146 pages
...increased » slight disease caused by a cold. His last words were, " Sir, I wish you to understand the principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." JOHN TYLER, THE TENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. GAIN, for the sixth time, we record the birthplace...
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The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1852 - 626 pages
...breathe. Nearly five years after this, at sixty-eight years of age, Harrison remarked: " Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government; I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more," and he ceased to breathe. Five years after this, at eighty-five years of age, Madison ceased to breathe....
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The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United ...

Henry Montgomery - Presidents - 1852 - 560 pages
...last. His last words were, as heard by Dr. Worthington, one of his consulting physicians : Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Thus died General William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, at the age of sixty-eight...
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A History of the United States: For the Use of Schools and Academies

John Frost - United States - 1852 - 370 pages
...of April, in the Ii8th year of his age. His last words were — " Sir, I wish you to understand the principles of the government. I wish them carried out, I ask nothing more." The deepest sorrow pervaded the country at this melancholj dispensation. All party feeling was abandoned...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 1

C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...God, and my daughter to my country." — Jefferson. " IT is the last of earth." — JL Mams. " I WISH you to understand the true principles of the government...— I wish them carried out — I ask nothing more." — Harrison. " I HAYE endeavoured to do my duty." — Taylor. " A DYING man can do nothing easy."...
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The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison ...

Henry Montgomery - 1853 - 484 pages
...last. His last words were, as heard by Dr. "Worthington, one of his consulting physicians : Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Thus died General William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, at the age of sixty-eight...
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