 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise! Cod grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! 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... | |
 | Government publications - 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...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 - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 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...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 - Literary Collections - 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...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 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 him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, helligerent; on a... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 pages
...and inviolable Union. Daniel Webster stated this article of faith eloquently in 1830 when he said: "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 ... let her last feeble and lingering gleams rather behold... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 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...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,... 
