...England's glory smiles in death."24 Addison has Cato, while mourning the death of his son Marcus, say: How beautiful is death when earn'd by Virtue! Who...would not be that youth? What Pity is it That we can but die once, to serve our country. This passage was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 7 February...

...death Nathan Hale repeated part of a passage from Addison's Cato, the great model for American Whigs: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country. British officers were moved by Nathan Hale's "gentle dignity," even as they left...

...would be familiar with a speech from the British playwright Joseph Addison's successful 1713 play Cato: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our countrv. A ninetheeth-century illustration depicting Hales execution. Fire Four days went...

...man but with meditations on death, glory, and the citizen's overwhelming obligations to the republic: How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who...youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! . . . Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own, when Rome...