 When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds,...  The Elements of Reading and Oratory - Page 100by Henry Mandeville - 1888 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1830
...borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and " when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the xgis of our rights and the palladium of our liberty; but let... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 321 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous Ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1830 - 520 pages
...may be opened what lies behind. — When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, fhe sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...fraternal blood! — Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth,... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 272 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1830
...borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and *' when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining- on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Lawyers - 1831 - 234 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my 14* vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...fraternal blood !—Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth,... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 48 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind.—When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blooid!—Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 338 pages
...behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered,...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! 8 Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 344 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 324 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth... | |
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