 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union; on states '''dissevered, + discordant, ^belligerent; our laud rent with civil + feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Government publications - 1989 - 90 pages
...schoolchildren were required to memorize the closing lines of Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...the right to nullify or set aside an act of Congress. The concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...Daniel Webster delivered these words in his second speech on Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830: When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...grant, that on my vision never may he opened what lies hehind. When my eyes shall he turned to hehold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, helligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 416 pages
...of his reply to Hayne have come ringing down the years, and stand unequalled as sheer eloquence : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may... | |
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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 drenched,... 
