 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,...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 425by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...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 see him 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 - 1830 - 334 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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...last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous Ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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...last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of tlie republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced,... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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 dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind.—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...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 - 1831 - 356 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 - 1831 - 356 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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 dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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...last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth r still full high advanced,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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...discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1832 - 916 pages
...never may be opened what lies behind. 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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Stales dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
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