 | 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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 páginas
...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...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ... let her last feeble and lingering gleams rather behold... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - 2008 - 296 páginas
...I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise ... on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once...discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may be, in fraternal blood!" As the years passed, the population of the free states... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 páginas
...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...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... | |
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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 drenched,... 
