 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
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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,... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 500 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,... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 738 pages
...and stairways, as he pronounces, in deepest tones of pathos, these words of solemn significance : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...time, the sun 'in heaven, may I not see him shining upon the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He had concluded thus : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He had concluded thus : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
 | Sons of New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...craped. Mrs. PERKINS also made a good display. Mr. JB KIMBALL showed the motto, amid drapery, of — " 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 disbanded fragments of a once glorious Union."... | |
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