 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 5541839Full view - About this book
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a land rent with civil feuds,*or drenched,... | |
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 398 pages
...little boys of Patagonia, then annexed, will be making the walls of the schoolhouses ring with — " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union," &c. It has been said that the speeches and writings of Webster will live long after Clay's... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 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...broken and dishonored fragments | of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered.f discordant, belligerent ;| on a land rent with civil§ feuds, || or... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 588 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, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...least, that curtain mny 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
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