 | James Albert Wineberger - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1860 - 98 pages
...efforts to converse with some of those around the bedside. At length he succeeded in saying, " I am just going ; have me decently buried, and do not let...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Mr. Tobias Lear, who was for many years Washington's secretary, and afterwards superintendent of his... | |
 | Edward Everett - Generals - 1860 - 366 pages
...several attempts to speak to Mr. Lear, but for some time without success. At length he said, "I am just going ; have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault, till three days after I am dead." Mr. Lear, unable to speak, bowed assent. He then spoke again and... | |
 | Edward Everett - Generals - 1860 - 362 pages
...several attempts to speak to Mr. Lear, but for some time without success. At length he said, "I am fast going; have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault, till three days after I am dead." Mr. Lear, unable to speak, bowed assent. He then spoke again and... | |
 | William C. Smith - Homiletical illustrations - 1860 - 376 pages
...body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." Lear says, " I bowed assent." He looked at me again and said, "Do you understand me ?" I replied, " Yes, sir." " Tis well," said he, and these were his last words, and 'tis well his last words were " 'Tis... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 756 pages
...when the noble spirit took its noiseless flight ;f while so tranquil * " At length," he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be pat into the vault in less than three days after I am dead."— Mr. Lear's statement. t "Dr. Craik,"... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 pages
...but rapid ebbings of life. At ten he whispered in a § low, husky, scarcely articulate voice, " I am going — have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put in the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand me? Well." It was fearful to... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 pages
...steady but rapid ebbings of life. At ten he whispered in a low, husky, scarcely articulate voice, "I am going— -have me decently buried, and do -not let my body be put in the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand me ? Well." It was fearful... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - Generals - 1860 - 670 pages
...when the noble spirit took its noiseless flight ;f while so tranquil * " At length," he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body bo put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead." — Mr. Lear's statement. t " Dr. Craik,"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pages
...Lear, " he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it. At length he said, ' I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let...looked at me again and said, 'Do you understand me?' I re' plied, 'Yes.' "Tis well,' said he. his wrist. I took it in mine and pressed it to my bosom. Dr.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 898 pages
...afte_r several ineffectual attempts to speak intelligibly, he said to Mr. Lear, his secretary : " I am just going.; have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault till three days after I am dead." He presently said : " i)o you understand me ?" and on Mr. Lear's... | |
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I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. 
