 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 884 pages
...been there, for next to his mother his thoughts turned towards you. . . . Before quitting him I wrote, at his dictation, the following message for you :...a better man if I had continued to live with him,' las. What purer gratification could there be in this world than to receive such words from a dying... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1869 - 412 pages
...without putting him to much pain. He was thankful for the change, and said that he was very comfortable. Before quitting him, I wrote down, at his dictation,...his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." What purer gratification could there be in this world than to receive such words from a dying man ?... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...message to his equally noble and gallant friend, Sir Herbert Edwardes : — " Tell him," said he, " I should have been a better man if I had continued...his wife, however short. Give my love to them both!" There are men in whose presence we feel as if we breathed a spiritual ozone, refreshing and invigorating,... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - Great Britain - 1880 - 506 pages
...better than in the simple words of the message sent to him by the dying hero, General Nicholson : — " Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...a residence with him and his wife, however short." And Sir Neville Chamberlain, who sent this message from the death-bed of their mutual friend, added... | |
 | Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - India - 1886 - 516 pages
...comfortable. " Before quitting him, I wrote down, at his dictation, the following message for you : — John '"Tell him I should have been a better man if I had Nicholson's . .,,. , i i- i • message continued to live with him, and our heavy public duties dy°™g-bed.... | |
 | Mormons - 1888 - 640 pages
...death-bed before Delhi, he dictated these last words to his noble and gallant friend, Sir Herbert Edwardes: "Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." These words falling from the dying lips of a great man should make an impression upon our minds, and... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Conduct of life - 1894 - 248 pages
...Delhi, and he dictated his last message to his best friend, Sir Herbert Edwards, thus: " Tell him that I should have been a better man if I had continued...his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." Henry Martyn, the missionary, was a frail, peevish, ill-tempered boy. His father sent him to the Truro... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - Delhi (India) - 1898 - 378 pages
...was ' very comfortable.' He dictated to Chamberlain the following message for Herbert Edwardes : ' Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence, however short, with him and his wife. Give my love to them both.' ' Up to this time,' writes Chamberlain,... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - Delhi (India) - 1898 - 376 pages
...was ' very comfortable.' He dictated to Chamberlain the following message for Herbert Edwardes : ' Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence, however short, with him and his wife. Give my love to them both.' ' Up to this time,' writes Chamberlain,... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - Generals - 1901 - 532 pages
...hero was dead. On his deathbed the stern warrior sent a message of tender humility to Edwardes : " Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence, however short, with him and his wife. Give my love to them both." "The fall of Delhi has pacified wonderfully,"... | |
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Tell him I should have been a better man if I had continued to live with him, and our heavy public duties had not prevented my seeing more of him privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to... 
