| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...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 severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...lies behind ! 7. 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, it... | |
| Charles Lanman - History - 1852 - 228 pages
...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 dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it... | |
| Robert Young Hayne - Foot's resolution, 1829 - 1852 - 90 pages
...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 dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds,... | |
| Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 290 pages
...sublimity and fervor', that " When his eye should be turned for the last time to behold the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union." Thanks be to God, "its last feeble and lingering glance beheld the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
| Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...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 dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil lends, or drenched, it... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853
...significance : ' 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, it may... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...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 +dissevered, + discordant, +belligerent; our land rent with civil +feuds, or drenched, it... | |
| New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...he said, on that great occasion, " are 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, it... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...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 dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
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