 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 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.... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Michigan - 1880 - 1062 pages
...sense we cannot consecrate, wo 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.... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 736 pages
...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. * * * It is rather for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1881 - 452 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.... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...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 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1873 - 452 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 or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...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 we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 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.... | |
 | 1928 - 1054 pages
...we cannot consecrate, we cannot Jiallowvthis^grpund.j ihe 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 sav(here} but it can never forget what they did rather,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 266 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... | |
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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... 
