 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,...  Reminiscences of Congress - Sida 147efter Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 295 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 sidor
...to borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and " when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...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... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 sidor
...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 dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 sidor
...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sidor
...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, fhe sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 sidor
...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,...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 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 sidor
...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...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 sidor
...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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Stales dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 sidor
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, oelligerent ; on... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 sidor
...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 the heavens', may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious... | |
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