| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 páginas
...November 20, 1863. HON. EDWARD EVERETT. My dear Sir : Your kind note of to-day is received. In oar respective parts yesterday, you could not have been excused to make a snort address, nor I a long one. I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 416 páginas
...earth. LETTER TO EDWARD EVERETT EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 1863. My dear Sir: Your kind note of to-day is received. In our respective...judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure.1 Of course I knew Mr. Everett would not fail, and yet, while the whole discourse was eminently... | |
| 1909 - 806 páginas
...two minutes." The President's reply was characteristically modest; I quote the reference to himself: "In our respective parts yesterday you could not have been excused to make a short address nor I long one. I am pleased to know that in your judgment the little I did say was not a failure." Mr. Clark... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1915 - 40 páginas
...central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." From President Lincoln's Reply: "In our respective parts yesterday you could not have...that in your judgment the little I did say was not a failure." LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG 1 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1915 - 344 páginas
...idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.'' From President Lincoln's Reply: "ln our respective parts yesterday you could not have been excused to make a short address nor 1 a long one. 1 am pleased to know that in your judgment the little 1 did say was not a failure." L1NCOLN'S... | |
| 1894 - 980 páginas
...Lincoln's acknowledgment of this compliment from so fine a critic was in his usual tone of frank modesty. Your kind note of to-day is received. In our respective...that in your judgment the little I did say was not a failure. Of course I knew that Mr. Everett would not fail ; and yet, while the whole discourse was... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 7, p. 23. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure. Letter to Edward Everett, November 20, 1 863, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 7,... | |
| David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...did in two minutes," Everett wrote the president the following day. Lincoln responded by writing that "I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure. . . . The point made against the theory of the general government being only an agency, whose principals... | |
| John Waugh - 2009 - 478 páginas
...you did in two minutes." Lincoln was gratified by this praise from so true a source. He wrote back, "I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure." 18 In the calm perspective of hindsight, others would read in the words what Everett had heard. Homer... | |
| 260 páginas
...central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." To which Lincoln responded, "... you could not have been excused to make a short address,...judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure. ..." IHN ll^T /ANOTHER D'RASH Yom Kippur lasts an entire day, and the traditional Jew spends a good... | |
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