 | 1922 - 694 Seiten
...multitude as no other words could have done. Permit me to congratulate you. ME. EVEEETT: Mr. President, I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. LINCOLN (Taking hat and moving... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 576 Seiten
...expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two Edward minutes. My son who parted from me at Balti- to Lincoln, more, and my daughter, concur in this... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 638 Seiten
...expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two Edward minutes. My son who parted from me at Balti- to^tnSota, more, and my daughter, concur in this... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 572 Seiten
...simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad if I could natter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two Edward minutes. My son who parted from me at Balti- to more, and my daughter, concur in this sentiment."... | |
 | 1891 - 302 Seiten
...magistrate who was addressing us." The next day Edward Everett wrote to the President : " I should he glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near...occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes." NOTE. — When about to recite this touching brief speech, if suitable as to place and time, give the... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 Seiten
...American orations." Edward Everett said of it in a letter to Lincoln: "I should be glad if I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Malice Toward None. "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as... | |
 | 1899 - 726 Seiten
...England, said to President Lincoln the day following the dedication of the National Cemetery : ' ' I would be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." A friend of mine well observed... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 Seiten
...expressed by you with such eloquence, simplicity, and appropriateness at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." It has always been a popular impression that Lincoln's speech was written upon the cars, en route to... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 Seiten
...world's masterpieces in rhetorical art." In a note to the President the day following, Mr. Everett said: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." STUDY SUGGESTIONS: The following points are from Noble's Studies in American Literature: (1) One can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 Seiten
...like it." The next day Edward Everett, who delivered the long oration of the day, wrote to Lincoln: " I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Mrs. Lincoln remarks that her husband seemed to think "more than ever" on religious matters " about... | |
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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. 
