 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 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... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...Webster's speech were: 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 J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...January 26, 1830: 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 disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - History - 2001 - 388 pages
..."Reply to Hayne": "When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may / not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union." Webster employed this self-identification with unity regularly thereafter, as in this 1838 speech on... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 pages
...1830 when he said: "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 ... let her last feeble and lingering gleams rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 416 pages
...sheer eloquence : " 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... | |
 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...eloquent Senator Clay. "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," said mighty Senator Webster. But his most quoted line was "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 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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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,... 
