 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,...  Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 5485edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 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 see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country,... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 pages
...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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...may no! 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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...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 time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union; on states... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...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 heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on States... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1832 - 916 pages
...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 Heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Stales... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...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 in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
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