 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,...  Lectures on the History of the French Revolution - Page 515by William Smyth - 1855Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 pages
...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...glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from 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 sec him shining- on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...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 union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 248 pages
...curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my 14* vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...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 time the sun...glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, oelligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !' FOX-HUNTING.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...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...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... | |
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