 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...towards you. . . . Before quitting him I wrote, at his dictation, the following message for you : ' Tell him I should have been 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 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...comfortable. Before quitting him, I wrote down, at his dictation, the following message for you : " Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." What purer gratification could there... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...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...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to them both!" There are men in whose presence we... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short." And Sir Neville Chamberlain, who sent this message from the... | |
 | Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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.... | |
 | 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...wounded on his 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...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." These words falling from the dying... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...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...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to them both." Henry Martyn, the missionary, was... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...suspense that the 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...with him and his wife. Give my love to them both." "The fall of Delhi has pacified wonderfully," wrote Edwardes to his wife. " At Peshawar nearly all... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...lasted for 1 " Before quitting him I wrote down at his dictation the following message for you : ' Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short ; give my love to them both.' " — Brigadier-General Neville... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...very comfortable. Before quitting him I wrote down at his dictation the following message for you : ' Tell him I should have been a better man if I had...privately. I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife, however short. Give my love to them both.' What purer gratification could there... | |
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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... 
