 | 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...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...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,...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...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,...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that oil my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil lends, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 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...on states +dissevered, + discordant, +belligerent; our land rent with civil +feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! ont the earth, still... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...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...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 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...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds,... | |
 | 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...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known... | |
 | 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...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Biography & Autobiography - 1854 - 526 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...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal Wood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
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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... 
