 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 ページ
...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...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;... | |
 | 1989 - 90 ページ
...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.... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 ページ
...1855 While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate...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;... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 ページ
...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;... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 ページ
...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;... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 ページ
.... While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifving prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate...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;... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 ページ
...destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate...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 ページ
...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...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;... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 ページ
...and inviolable Union. Daniel Webster stated this article of faith eloquently in 1830 when he said: "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 ...... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 ページ
...21 His oratory rang with personal associations, beginning with the closing of his "Reply to Hayne": "When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may / not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union."... | |
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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,... 
