...pebbles, sounded through the open window, when the expiring poet whispered to a friend by his bed, ' 1 may have but a minute to speak to you, — My dear, be a good man — be virtuous, be religious. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.' — Men forgive much to the dead,...

...bedside ; aud the parting words of Sir Walter Scott to his son-iu-law, echoed the counsel of the sage: "I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man ; notbing else can give you comfort ing in particular, before it is fit for the workman wbea you come...

...Scott, to his son-in-law, echoed the counsel of the sage : " I may have but a minute to speak to you. Mv dear, be a good man : be virtuous, be religious, be a good man ; nothing else can give vou any comfort when you come to be here." Henry Marten, the regicide, who spent twenty years...

...he awoke quite composed and conscious, and calling Lockhart to his bedside, said to him, " Lockhart, I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear,...will give you any comfort when you come to lie here." On the 21st September, a warm, beautiful day, the windows wide open, the Tweed rippling over its pebbly...

...his death, he called his Bon-in-law and biographer, Lockhart, to his bed-side, and said : " Lockhart, I may have but a 'minute to speak to you. My dear,...else will give you any comfort when you come to lie nere." Osborne. LVII. — THE SEVENTH PLAGUE OF EGYPT. 1. 'TWAS morn — the rising splendor rolled...

...death, he called his son-in law and biograph- r, Lock hart, to his bed-side, and said, " Lockhart, I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear,...good man, — be virtuous, be religious, — be a pood man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.1' Let every youth take...

...bedside. "My dear," he said, " I may have but a moment to speak to you. Be a good man; be virtuous—be religious: be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort, when you are called upon to lie here!" Oh, what a bequest were these words, uttered by the dying lips of the...

...was clear and calm—every trace of the wild fire of delirium extinguished. ' Lockhart,' he said, ' I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort, when you...

...son-in law and biogrupl :r, Lockhart, to his bed-side, and s"id, " Lockhart, I may have but a niinuh- to speak to you. My dear, be a good man, — be virtuous, be religious, — bt a p-tod man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here." Let every youth...

...die." Dr. Johnson's dying adjuration was, "Live well." Scott repeated the advice to his son-in-law, "I have but a minute to speak to you, my dear ; be a good man, be virtuous, be religious, nothing else can give you comfort when you como to lio here." Nelson said to Hardy, " Thank God, I...