 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pagina’s
...behold for the last time the euu 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 laud rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1857 - 156 pagina’s
...such great things for us. United in Christ, the Union is safe. * * " When my eyes," said Webster, " shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in the heavens, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a onc'e glorious... | |
 | 1989 - 90 pagina’s
...schoolchildren were required to memorize the closing lines of Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When...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... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 pagina’s
...the right to nullify or set aside an act of Congress. The concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...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... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pagina’s
...Daniel Webster delivered these words in his second speech on Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830: When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...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... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When...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... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pagina’s
...grant, that on my vision never may he opened what lies hehind. When my eyes shall he turned to hehold, 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, helligerent; on a... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pagina’s
...penetrate the vail. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When...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... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 pagina’s
...of his reply to Hayne have come ringing down the years, and stand unequalled as sheer eloquence : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...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... | |
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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,... 
