 | 1850 - 642 pages
...— When Walter Scott was dying he called his son-in-law, Mr. Lockhart, to him, and said, " Lockhart, 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 come... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...fourteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel. His last injunction to his son-in-law were in these words : " 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 comfort when you come to lie here."... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - Authors, Scottish - 1852 - 324 pages
...the solemn adieux to earth. When Lockhart was called from his bed to attend him, he said, " Lockhart, 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 come to lie... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...brilliant and accomplished Sir Walter Scott, to his son-in-law, echoed the counsel of the sage : " 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 can give you any comfort when you come to lie... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - English essays - 1852 - 320 pages
...value and reality those touching words addressed to his sonin-law from the bed of death 1 " Lockhart, 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 come... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - English essays - 1852 - 314 pages
...value and reality those touching words addressed to his sonin-law from the bed of death ! " Lockhart, 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...him entirely himself, though in the last extreme of feebleness. His eye was clear and calm—every trace of the wild fire of delirium extinguished. "...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 come... | |
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...emphatically here as elsewhere. When Sir Walter Scott was approaching his end, he said to Lockhart, " 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 come... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...ia but one.' I chose the 14th chapter of St. John's Gospel. When near his end, ho paid, ' Loekhart, 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 comfort when you come to lie here.'... | |
 | Thomas William Parsons - 1854 - 204 pages
...came into my room, and told me that his master had awoke in a state of composure and consciousness, and wished to see me immediately. I found him entirely...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 come to lie here.' He... | |
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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 come to lie here. 
