| Daniel Webster - 1853
...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...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... | |
| B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 páginas
...enemies might profit by his example. His efforts were successful. His prayer was: " When my eyes shall bo 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... | |
| New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1853 - 282 páginas
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are 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... | |
| 1853 - 748 páginas
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
| Rufus Choate - 1853 - 116 páginas
...it, although it had been opened to him in vision, that within the next natural day his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven." To accuse him in that act of " sinning against his own conscience," is to charge, one of these things... | |
| George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 500 páginas
...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 páginas
...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 510 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 páginas
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ! on... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 páginas
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
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