 | 1922 - 694 pages
...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 - 638 pages
...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 - 576 pages
...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 - 572 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...thoughts expressed by you with such eloquence and appropriateness at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. My son, who parted from me at Baltimore, and my daughter concur in this sentiment. I remain, dear sir,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...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. 
