 | Leonard Woods - 1852 - 60 pagine
...discharged! That which was committed to him, in trust for posterity, he had kept. When his eyes were turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens, he saw, as he had prayed he might, " the gorgeous ensign of the Republic still full high advanced,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1853 - 282 pagine
...countrymen more than at any other period in his life; and he has had his wish, that when his eyes should be turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens, he might not see him shining on the broken and disbanded fragments of a once glorious Union. Resolved,... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pagine
...countrymen more than at any other period in his life; and he has had his wish, that when his eyes should be turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens, he might not see him shining on the broken and disbanded fragments of a once glorious Union. Resolved,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 490 pagine
...not least — why we cherish this hope, that when the final hour of our lives shall come, and " our eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens," when all the plans and hopes which we have ever cherished shall be ended, and we shall give the parting... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1858 - 500 pagine
...not least — why we cherish this hope, that when the final hour of our lives shall come, and " our eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens," when all the plans and hopes which we have ever cherished shall be ended, and we shall give the parting... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pagine
...melodious swell, in its most deep, solemn, and beautiful tone, rolled out that mighty passage, beginning, " When my eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and discordant fragments of a once glorious Union ;... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pagine
...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 for the last time to behold the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ;... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1881 - 272 pagine
...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 for the last time to behold the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union;... | |
 | Webster Historical Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1883 - 314 pagine
...Webster was making his famous reply to Hayne, and just as he uttered that famous sentence, 'When mine eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold the sun in heaven,' &c., the sun burst forth in all its radiant glory, filling the Senate chamber and bathing... | |
 | United States. Army of the Cumberland, James Wood - 1889 - 76 pagine
...rolls on. In the language of that eminent statesman and eloquent senator, Daniel Webster, " When our eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold the sun in the heavens, may we not again see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold 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... 
