 | Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 298 pages
...rejoiced that when, for the "las* time, he turned his eyes to behold the sun in heaven, he did not see it shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union." But that his "last and lingering glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and... | |
 | Rufus Choate - 1853 - 116 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 504 pages
...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,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 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 time,...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds,... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 738 pages
...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 ; on States dissevered, discordant,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 276 pages
...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;...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 500 pages
...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...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 pages
...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 glorious Union; on... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 pages
...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 ; on States dissevered,... | |
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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... 
