 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - 398 σελίδες
...little boys of Patagonia, then annexed, will be making the walls of the schoolhouses ring with — " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union," &c. It has been said that the speeches and writings of Webster will live long after Clay's shall have... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 590 σελίδες
...may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...that in my day, at 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, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | 1989 - 90 σελίδες
...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 - 1992 - 550 σελίδες
...that in my day, at 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...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 σελίδες
...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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 σελίδες
...that in my day, at 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...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 σελίδες
...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...glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, helligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may he, in fraternal blood! Let their... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 σελίδες
...that in my day, at 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...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 σελίδες
...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...land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of... | |
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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... 
