 | Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1898 - 324 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant, and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...speaks in the English language." That was the truth. Who ever thinks of or reads Everett's Gettysburg speech now? If one will compare those two speeches... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1899 - 280 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...are remembered who speaks in the English language." EXERCISE 164. (Written.) After hearing the following logical composition of several paragraphs, reproduce... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1899 - 276 pages
...brilliant journalist, wrote as follows, quoting Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War : — speech will be read by a thousand men where one reads...are remembered who speaks in the English language." EXERCISE 164. (Written.) After hearing the following logical composition of several paragraphs, reproduce... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is eloquent arid it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...English language." That was the truth. If you will take those two speeches now, you will get an idea how superior genius is to education ; how superior... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks the English language." LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT CHAPTER XXI LINCOLN AND GRANT "I Can't Spare... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 828 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks the English language." LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT CHAPTER XXI LINCOLN AND GRANT i , "I Can't... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant, and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand men where one reads Everett's, and it will be remembered as long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks in the English language.'... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - Determination (Personality trait) - 1925 - 472 pages
...lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant and it is learned, but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand...long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks the English language." Meade's failure to pursue Lee after the Battle of Gettysburg so disheartened... | |
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 pages
...Recollections of the Civil War, tells of Secretary Stanton saying to him, shortly after the address: "It will be read by a thousand men where one reads Everett's,...long as anybody's speeches are remembered who speaks the English language." Within six months after Lincoln had spoken, Joseph H. Barrett in his biography... | |
 | David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Debra Reddin Van Tuyll - History - 610 pages
...lines," Stanton told Dana. "Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility.. .but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand men...remembered as long as anybody's speeches are remembered." Stanton's fondness for concision was shared by Dana, who, as an editor, once admonished a particularly... | |
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Mr. Lincoln has made a speech of perhaps forty or fifty lines. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, polished to the last possibility. It is elegant, and it is learned; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a thousand men where one reads Everett's, and... 