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, or drenched,... Treasury of Choice Quotations - Page 369by Treasury - 1869 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 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...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... | |
| Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 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...glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...behold, for the last time, fhe sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered,...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! — Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...to borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and *' disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influence, sec him shining- on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God frant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies beind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...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... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - History - 1831 - 248 pages
...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,...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !—Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
| George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 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 dishonored fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...devotion to the Union, may be almost looked upon as a prophecy, too literally and terribly fulfilled. ' When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, oelligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !' FOX-HUNTING.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
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