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 Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln - Page 144by Thomas Dixon - 1913 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and " when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the xgis of our rights and the palladium of our liberty; but let... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 time,...glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...may be opened what lies behind. — When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, fhe sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! — Let their... | |
| Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 pages
...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 time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and *' when my red finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influence, sec him shining- on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the... | |
| George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...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 time,...glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blooid!—Let their... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...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 time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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 time,...glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...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 time,...glorious union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1832 - 916 pages
...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 time,...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Stales dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
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