 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,...  The Sixth Reader of the Popular Series - Page 307by Marcius Willson - 1882 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...seek not to 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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...seek not to 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 my eyes shall be turned to behold, for fhe last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments... | |
 | 1989 - 90 pages
...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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...seek not to 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...rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 pages
...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...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 pages
...seek not to 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...rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pages
...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...glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, helligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may he, in fraternal blood! Let their... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...seek not to 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...rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 pages
...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...land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the... | |
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