 | Massachusetts. Governor - 1861 - 566 pages
...what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from those honored dead we take increased... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to 36* the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 210 pages
...a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | Edward Everett - Consecration of cemeteries - 1864 - 100 pages
...a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation...so nobly carried on. ) It is rather for us to be, here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it fer above our power to add or detract. The world will...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thu£ far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add...far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased... | |
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what... 
