 | 1880 - 632 Seiten
...on, and he was not unconscious of its approach. ' It was characteristic of the Prince Consort that he contemplated the prospect of death with an equanimity...; but I set no store by it. If I knew that those I loved were well cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow." In the same conversation, he... | |
 | Sir Theodore Martin - 1880 - 610 Seiten
...you may be able to do more.' 415 CHAPTEE CXVI. IT was characteristic of the Prince Consort that he contemplated the prospect of death with an equanimity...those I love were well cared for, I should be quite read}' to die to-morrow.' In the same conversation, he added : ' I am sure, if I had a severe illness,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 Seiten
...singular equanimity for a man of his years. Not long before his fatal illness he said to the Queen, ' I do not cling to life. You do ; but I set no store...cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow.' ' I have no tenacity of life,' he added. ' He was ready to live,' the Queen says, in a memorandum of... | |
 | 1880 - 576 Seiten
...Prince confessing that his desire for life had become weakened. He said, in speaking' to the Queen, ' I do not cling to life ; you do ; but I set no store by it. If I knew that these I love were well cared for I should be quite ready to die to-morrow ... I am sure if I had a... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 Seiten
...self-assertion and by self-suppression. Prince Albert was well aware of his own constitutional tendency. " I do not cling to life. You do; but I set no store by it," he had said to the queen in the course of a conversation not very long before his fatal illness. "... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 766 Seiten
...self-assertion and by self-suppression. Prince Albert was well aware of his own constitutional tendency. " I do not cling to life. You do; but I set no store by it," he had said to the queeu in the course of a conversation not very long before his fatal illness. "... | |
 | 1887 - 468 Seiten
...prepared for the end. It is stated that not long before his fatal illness he said to the Queen : ' I do not cling to life. You do ; but I set no store...cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow.' It has never been accurately ascertained how the fever under which he sank originated ; but it is strongly... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1895 - 296 Seiten
...vitality was that he had no strong love of life. He said to the Queen, not long before his fatal illness, "I do not cling to life. You do; but I set no store...cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow; " and he added, " I am sure if I had a severe illness I should give up at once. I should not struggle... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - 1901 - 272 Seiten
...The Prince himself had no fear of death. Not long before his fatal illness he had said to the Queen, "I do not cling to life. You do, but I set no store...cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow." All his actions through life showed indeed that he was a man of sincere piety, and that religion occupied... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1901 - 308 Seiten
...was that he had no strong love of life. He said to the Queen, not long before his fatal illness, " I do not cling to life. You do ; but I set no store...cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow ; " and he added, " I am sure if I had a severe illness I should give up at once. I should not struggle... | |
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I do not cling to life. You do ; but I set no store by it. If I knew that those I love were well cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow. 
