 | William Smyth - 1855 - 590 páginas
...exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant, that in my day, at...vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining... | |
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - 398 páginas
...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 time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union," &c. It has been said that... | |
 | 1855 - 902 páginas
...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | 1989 - 90 páginas
...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 time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least,...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,... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 páginas
...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 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,... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...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 time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant,... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 páginas
...exciting, gratifving prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least,...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,... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 páginas
...exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day, at...may not rise. God 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,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...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...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,... | |
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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,... 
