 | Susan Dunn - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 396 pages
...procedures. Again Washington asked what time it was. "Have me decently buried," he said softly to Lear, "and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Unable to utter a reply, the griefstricken Lear could only nod in agreement. "Do you understand me?"... | |
 | Stephen J. Spignesi - Reference - 2004 - 292 pages
...duties faithfully. I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends." 5. "I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into a vault in less than two days after I am dead. Do you understand me? 'Tis wel1." 6. "I have a terrific... | |
 | White, John - Death - 2004 - 205 pages
...speak, so he leaned close to hear what was being said. With slightly blurred speech Washington told him, "Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into a vault in less than two days after I am dead." Lear nodded, unable to speak, fighting to keep back... | |
 | Harold Ivan Smith - Religion - 228 pages
...chance of life and to give families an opportunity to rest. George Washington ordered in his will, "Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put in the vault in less than three days after I am dead."1 No one wanted to be buried prematurely before... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
..." 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 my...again and said, ' Do you understand me?' I replied, i Yes.' ' 'Tis well,' said he. " About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - Ontario - 2006 - 499 pages
...long." Lear could barely hear as he leaned forward over the bed. "I am just going," Washington told him. "Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." Washington shared the prevailing fear that his coma might be mistaken for... | |
 | James Rees, Stephen J. Spignesi - Business & Economics - 2011 - 253 pages
...humbled Washington all the days of his life. His final words were, fittingly, instructional: "I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into a vault in less than two days after I am dead. Do you understand me? Tis well." Washington was worried... | |
 | Edward J. Larson - History - 2007 - 349 pages
...made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it," Lear noted. "At length, he said 'I am going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put in the vault in less than two days after I am dead.'" Once he was certain that Lear understood his... | |
 | 1881 - 784 pages
...at Mount Vernon, December 14th, 1799. His last words, spoken with difficulty, were : ' • I am fast going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my...the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand mo ?" His secretary bowed his head. "It is well," said Washington, and soon after... | |
 | American literature - 1897 - 828 pages
...o'clock 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 my body be put into the vault in less than three clays after I am dead." I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said:... | |
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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. 
