 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
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that oil 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 lends, or drenched,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 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...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven,...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...enemies might profit by his example. His efforts were successful. His prayer was: " When my eyes shall bo turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven,...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent! on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 94 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes/' he said on that great occasion, " are turned to 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, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 102 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said on that great occasion, " are turned to 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, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
 | Rufus Choate - Statesmen - 1853 - 116 pages
...it, although it had been opened to him in vision, that within the next natural day his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven." To accuse him in that act of " sinning against his own conscience," is to charge, one of these things... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 510 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 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,... | |
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