 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn 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 ;... | |
 | John Frost - Canada - 1854 - 738 pages
...and stairways, as he pronounces, in deepest tones of pathos, these words of solemn significance : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun 'in heaven, may I not see him shining upon the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He had concluded thus : " When my eyes 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 510 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn 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;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 504 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn 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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...fine piece of rhetoric misplaced, for want of circumstances to justify it. He had 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 ;... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day at least, that curtain may noC/ise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. pWhen my eyes shafl be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaveri; may I not see him shining... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...and our children. Beyond that I 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...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 ;... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...our children. Beyond that. | I 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...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... | |
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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,... 
