We are met on a great battlefield 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 might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. " But, in a larger... Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 205by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
| John Russell Bartlett - Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pa.) - 1874 - 138 pages
...endure. We are met on 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...dedicated here to 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... | |
| 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
...endure. We are met on 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...dedicated here to 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... | |
| 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
...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 of those who here gave their lives...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 - 364 pages
...endure. AVe are met on 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...dedicated here to 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... | |
| 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....dedicated here to 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
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