Difference between revisions of "Emmets"

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Robert Emmet: Irish patriot (1778–1803) who said at his trial, after being sentenced to death for treason: "When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done."
- Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock

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-n. <i>archaic</i> : ant
+* '''emmet:''' (''archaic'') ant
-also Robert, 1778–1803, Irish patriot whom on the eve of his execution before the House of Lords for treason said [http://www.robertemmet.org/speech.htm "Let no man write my epitaph"]
+* '''Robert Emmet:''' Irish patriot (1778–1803) who said at his trial, after being sentenced to death for treason: "When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done."
+** [http://www.robertemmet.org/speech.htm Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock]