 | Education - 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 - Presidents - 1890 - 638 pages
...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...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- toEL?m."in, more, and... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 576 pages
...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...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 Lincoln, more, and... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 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,... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 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 to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes." NOTE. — When about to recite this touching brief speech, if... | |
 | Education - 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 - 482 pages
...said,— " Permit me to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you with such eloquence, simplicity, and appropriateness at the consecration...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...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....came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. My son, who parted from me at Baltimore, and my daughter concur... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 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...came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Mrs. Lincoln remarks that her husband seemed to think "more than... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry - American literature - 1903 - 572 pages
...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 following points are from Noble's Studies... | |
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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. 
