 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
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for fhe 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, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may bo 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 fends, or drenched,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 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, + discordant, ^belligerent; our laud rent with civil + feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...pronounce soil to rhyme with isle ; but give the oi its true sound, as in coin. LIBERTY AND UNION. 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,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance: '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,... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 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, discordant, belligerent;—on our land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 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, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | History - 1857 - 650 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, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 764 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He liad concluded thus : " 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,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 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, discordant, belligerent ; our land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
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