| George Washington Bungay - United States - 1854 - 506 pages
...when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children....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,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 554 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may...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,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children....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... | |
| 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 ; on states dissevered,... | |
| 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; on states dissevered,... | |
| 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 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 ; on States dissevered,... | |
| 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 ; on States dissevered,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never... | |
| 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 ; on States dissevered,... | |
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