 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...12. THE AMERICAN UNION.— Webster. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the nun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...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... | |
 | 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...states '''dissevered, + discordant, ^belligerent; our laud rent with civil + feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. 5. Let their last feeble... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 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...Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; our land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in frater nal blood ! 5. Let their last feeble... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 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...broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union;—on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent;—on our land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1858 - 822 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...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... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 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...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! 5. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 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...discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil fends, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather... | |
 | Samuel P. Lyman - 1858 - 580 pages
...pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance: " When my eyes shall be turned tc behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may...discordant, belligerent! on a land rent with civil feud, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...may take ; but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death ! 12. THE AMERICAN UNION. — Webster. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent;111 on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their... | |
 | Frank Moore - Orators - 1858 - 660 pages
...my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the lost time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining...discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil fends, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather... | |
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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... 
