As soon as the necessary things were brought in by my son-in-law, during which time we had waited with him in solemn stillness, he began--with features more and more animated, and with an eye to which a strange and indescribable lustre, yea, a higher glow of love with which he looked upon us, had returned,--to pronounce some words of prayer introductory to the solemn rite. Then he gave the bread first to me, then to the female friend, then to Lommatzsch, and lastly to himself, pronouncing aloud to each, the words of institution (Matt. xxvi, etc.; I Cor. xi. 23-29),--so loud indeed, that the children and Muhlenfels (late Professor in the London University), who kneeled listening at the door of the next room, heard them plainly. So also with the wine, to us three first, and then to himself, with the full words of institution to each. Then, with his eyes directed to Lommatzsch, he said: "Upon these words of Scripture I stand fast, as I have always taught; they are the foundation of my faith." After he had pronounced the blessing, he turned his eye once more full of love on me, and then on each of the others, with the words: "In this love and communion, we are and remain ONE." He laid himself back upon his pillow; the animation still rested on his features. After a few minutes he said: "Now I can hold out here no longer," and then, "Lay me in a different posture." We laid him on his side,--he breathed a few times,--and life stood still! Meanwhile the children had all come in, and were kneeling around the bed as his eyes closed gradually. _Account of Schleiermacher's Death prepared by his wife._ SCHWERIN VON (Kurt Christoph, Count and Field-marshal), 1684-1757. "_Let all brave Prussians follow me_," said just before he fell dead, having been struck by a cannon ball. SCOTT (James, Duke of Monmouth, natural son of Charles II., of England), 1649-1685. "_There are six guineas for you, and do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or four times. My servant will give you more gold if you do your work well_," said to the headsman, who, notwithstanding these words, being unnerved, inflicted several blows before the neck was severed. SCOTT (Thomas, Privy Councillor of James V. of Scotland). "_Begone, you and your trumpery; until this moment I believed there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty_," said to a priest who wished to point out to him the way of salvation. SCOTT (Sir Walter), 1771-1832. "_God bless you all!_" to his family. Some give his last words thus: "I feel as if I were to be myself again." Still others say his last words were these, addressed to Lockhart, "My dear, be a good man,--be virtuous,--be religious,--be a good man. Nothing else can give you any comfort, when you come to lie here."