On his deathbed in 1836, he ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix ( Happy at Last ).

On his deathbed Amalric bequeathed Nablus to Maria and Isabella, both of whom would retire there.

On his deathbed, Abu Bakr appointed Umar as his successor without an election by the community of Believers.

On his deathbed Charles II had bequeathed the entire Spanish inheritance to Louis XIV's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou.

On his deathbed, Origen had made a bequest of his private library to the Christian community in the city.

On his deathbed, Conrad yielded the crown to his main rival, Henry of Saxony ( r. 919 – 36 ), who was elected king at the Diet of Fritzlar in 919.

On his deathbed, Tetzel received a magnanimously penned correspondence from Martin Luther, stating that the child ( i. e. the scandal ) had a different father.

On November 10, 1928, when the " Fighting Irish " team was losing to Army 6-0 at the end of the half, Rockne entered the locker room and told the team the words he heard on Gipp's deathbed in 1920: " I've got to go, Rock.

On his deathbed he was exhibited with the black square above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to wave a banner bearing a black square.

On January 8, 1324, despite physicians ' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed.

On his deathbed, Murad IV ordered the execution of his mentally disabled brother, Ibrahim I ( reigned 1640 – 48 ), which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line ; but the order was not carried out.

On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters ; however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to renege.

On his deathbed he accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.

On his deathbed he refused to receive the last sacraments of the Church.

On his deathbed, in the presence of only two witnesses, his nephew Frederick Barbarossa and the Bishop of Bamberg, he allegedly designated Frederick his successor, rather than his own surviving six-year-old son Frederick.

On 23 November 1991, in a prepared statement made on his deathbed, Mercury confirmed that he had AIDS.

On his deathbed, he named his younger brother, Sun Quan, as his heir.

On his deathbed, Henry V entrusted Matilda with the imperial insignia.

On his deathbed, he committed a manuscript to his chaplain, ordering him to consult with Libert Fromondus, a theology professor at Leuven, and Henri Calenus, a canon at the metropolitan church, and to publish the manuscript if they agreed it should be published, adding " If, however, the Holy See wishes any change, I am an obedient son, and I submit to that Church in which I have lived to my dying hour.

On his deathbed, Bolívar asked his aide-de-camp, General Daniel F. O ' Leary to burn the remaining, extensive archive of his writings, letters, and speeches.

On his deathbed, Ivan appointed a council consisting of Godunov, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, Vasili Shuiski and others, to guide his son and successor, for Feodor was feeble both in mind and body ; " he took refuge from the dangers of the palace in devotion to religion ; and though his people called him a saint, they recognized that he lacked the iron to govern men.

On his deathbed, he reportedly asked to be reconciled to his father, but King Henry, fearing a trick, refused to see him.

On her deathbed, she convinces her father to free Tom, but because of circumstances the promise never materializes.

On his deathbed in 1020 Manuel commended his two surviving sons Isaakios and Ioannes to the emperor's care.

On a stage he always knew what to do, and tonight, to judge by the applause, he must be doing it better than usual.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

On August 3, two massive headlands reared out of the mists -- great gateways never before, so far as Hudson knew, seen by Europeans.

Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory ( including Carl von Clausewitz's On War ), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking, saying in 1962 that " Fox Conner was the ablest man I ever knew.

When we came to do On the Town, I knew it was time for Stanley to get screen credit because we weren't boss-assistant anymore but co-creators.

As these epithets imply, there has long been a debate — at least from the time of Cicero's On the Laws ( Book 1, paragraph 5 )— concerning the veracity of his tales and, more importantly, the extent to which he knew himself to be creating fabrications.

On September 10, 2001, Hanjour, Mihdhar, and Nawaf checked into the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia where Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen, a prominent Saudi government official, was staying – although no evidence was ever uncovered that they had met, or knew of each other's presence.

On one occasion, as related by Roger of Wendover, when King Henry met with papal prelates, he said, " If prelates knew how much I, in my reverence of God, am afraid of them and how unwilling I am to offend them, they would trample on me as on an old and worn-out shoe.

On one occasion Pius X personally gave communion to a four-year-old English child whom he had gently asked if he knew who was being received in the Eucharist because the child answered ' Jesus '.

On a macrocosmic level, the consciousness of living — the dim awareness that we are alive for a moment on this planet as it spins, meaninglessly, around the cold and infinite galaxy — gives human beings " the status of a small god in nature ," according to Ernest Becker: " Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms.

On the other hand, he knew that at least two eastern provinces did not have a satrap.

On 25 Jan. 2012, Tom Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education published a report that questions whether John Watson knew of cognitive abnormalities in Little Albert that would greatly skew the results of the experiment.

On the other hand, the original version of the Gesta was written in explicit praise of Hereward ,; much of its information was provided by men who knew him personally, principally, if the preface is to be believed, a former colleague in arms and member of his father's former household named Leofric the Deacon.

On May 24, 1862, during the pursuit of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston up the Peninsula, when Gen. Barnard and his staff were reconnoitering a potential crossing point on the Chickahominy River, they stopped, and Custer overheard his commander mutter to himself, " I wish I knew how deep it is.

On 23 November that year, the Pall Mall Gazette called it " a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him ".

On the silver screen, however, she found consolation ; " For the first time in my life I knew there was beauty in the world.

On the one hand, as an experienced statesman, he knew that with the Great Powers backing Greek autonomy, the game was up in the Peloponnese.

He would later recollect over four decades later that he believed, " On being baptized I knew God then and there gave me HIS HOLY SPIRIT!

On the other hand, Speck also wrote that Macaulay " took pains to present the virtues even of a rogue, and he painted the virtuous warts and all ", and that " he was never guilty of suppressing or distorting evidence to make it support a proposition which he knew to be untrue ".

" My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ... On one occasion the jeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me.

On the one hand, he is said to have restored the doctrines of Plato in an incorrupted form ; while, on the other hand, according to Cicero, he summed up his opinions in the formula, " that he knew nothing, not even his own ignorance.

On 29 April 2000, a Washington Post article, " Soviets Knew Date of Cuba Attack ", reported that the CIA had information indicating that the Soviet Union knew the invasion was going to take place, and did not inform Kennedy.

On the relationship between Geoffrin and Stanislaw, the academic Maria Gordon-Smith writes, " The King knew Madame Geoffrin in Paris from his youthful days on the grand tour in 1753, when he was entrusted to her care by her father.

On 19 February 1881 he wrote, " I have done many base things in my time — some that I knew to be base at the moment, and many that I deeply regretted afterwards and up to this very day.