 | John Russell Bartlett - Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) - 1874 - 138 pages
...testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate...it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...we cannot cansecrate, 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 very little note nor long remember what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - History - 1875 - 460 pages
...civil war, testing whether that nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate...it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 3. 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 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We arc met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting.place...it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note. nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate...it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled hero, havo consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note or long remember what wo pay here, but It eon never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...But, in a larger sense, 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 we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 3. 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 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...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 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
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We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in... 
