英语词汇i only regret that i have but one life to give for my country的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. Supposedly the last words that American spy Nathan Hale said on the gallows before he was hanged by the British. According to the recently discovered diary of British officer Captain Fred- erick Mackenzie, what he really said was, “It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander- in-chief.” Hale was executed on September 22, 1776. British au- thor Joseph Addison’s play Cato (1713) has the words “What pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country.”

词汇	i only regret that i have but one life to give for my country
词源	I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. Supposedly the last words that American spy Nathan Hale said on the gallows before he was hanged by the British. According to the recently discovered diary of British officer Captain Fred- erick Mackenzie, what he really said was, “It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander- in-chief.” Hale was executed on September 22, 1776. British au- thor Joseph Addison’s play Cato (1713) has the words “What pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country.”
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