 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 748 pages
...occasion. Everett listened thoughtfully, and when Lincoln had done, he said simply, "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." Fut Lincoln shook his head... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1926 - 400 pages
...Everett sought out Lincoln, and declared, to that modest man's great embarrassment ; " Mr President, I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in 2 hours as you did in 2 minutes." Now when we think of such an... | |
 | Colorado College - 1904 - 700 pages
...Eward Everett, the orator of the day, recognized this wonderful gift in prose writing and said to him, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Lincoln's speech is a great exception, but you may turn anywhere in poetry and find examples of this... | |
 | John William Starr - 1927 - 406 pages
...generous. He wrote Lincoln as follows : "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." After the dedicatory exercises were over, the presidential party repaired to their train, which had... | |
 | Samuel Eliot Morison - 1927 - 562 pages
...two-hour oration by Edward Everett that preceded it, although Everett generously wrote the 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 '. PR Frothingham, Everett... | |
 | John William Starr - 1927 - 414 pages
...Secretary Seward was no less disappointed. But Everett was more generous. He wrote Lincoln as follows : "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." After the dedicatory exercises... | |
 | 1924 - 324 pages
...Everett sought out Lincoln, and declared, to that modest man's great embarrassment: "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." Now when we think of such... | |
 | Colorado College - 1904 - 596 pages
...Eward Everett, the orator of the day, recognized this wonderful gift in prose writing and said to him, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I...occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Lincoln's speech is' a great exception, but you may turn anywhere in poetry and find examples of this... | |
 | 1890 - 982 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...occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Mr. Lincoln replied : " Your kind note of to-day is received. In our respective parts yesterday, you... | |
 | 1894 - 980 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 came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. My son, who parted from me... | |
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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. 
