 | 1922 - 694 страница
...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...the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. LINCOLN (Taking hat and moving towards door with Everett) : Now, Mr. Everett, I have heard and made... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 638 страница
...accommodation on the platform yesterday, and much kindness otherwise to me and mine at Gettysburg. Permit me also to express my great admiration of the...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 Edward minutes. My son who parted... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 576 страница
...accommodation on the platform yesterday, and much kindness otherwise to me and mine at Gettysburg. Permit me also to express my great admiration of the...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 Edward minutes. My son who parted... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 страница
...enduring of 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 страница
...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...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." A friend of mine well observed : ' ' Those simple sentences of our martyred President are imbedded... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 страница
...said,— " Permit me to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you with such eloquence, simplicity, and appropriateness at the consecration...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." It has always been a popular... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 страница
...the consecration of the cemetery. 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." It has always been a popular impression that Lincoln's speech was written upon the cars, en route to... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 страница
...Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you with such eloquence and appropriateness at the consecration of the cemetery....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. My son, who parted from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 страница
...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 came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Mrs. Lincoln remarks that... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 страница
...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 came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." STUDY SUGGESTIONS: The... | |
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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. 
