 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...His prayer was: " When my eyes shall bo 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... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...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, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it... | |
 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 298 pages
...rejoiced that when, for the "las* time, he turned his eyes to behold the sun in heaven, he did not see it shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union." But that his "last and lingering glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 206 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 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... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...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, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil loads, or drenched, it... | |
 | Sons of New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...sincerely rejoiced that, when for the " last time he turned his eyes to behold the sun in heaven, he did not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; " but that his " last and lingering glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | Sons of New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1854 - 254 pages
...sincerely rejoiced that, when for the " last time he turned his eyes to behold the sun in heaven, he did not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; " but that his " last and lingering glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...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 States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
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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,... 
