 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...sense; what foresight; and, on great occasions, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...sense; what foresight; and, on great occasions, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...sense ; what foresight, and on great occasions, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion. * * * * It can not be said there is any exaggeration of his worth. If ever a man was fairly tested,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...sense ; what foresight, and on great occasions, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion. * * * ^ It can not be said there is any exaggeration of his worth. If ever a man was fairly tested,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...sense ! what foresight ! and, on great occasion, what lofty, and, more than national, what human tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...words on any recorded occasion. This, and one other recorded American speech, that of John Brown, to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 438 pages
...sense ; what foresight ; and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good-sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...sense ; what foresight ; and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good-sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 pages
...sense ; what foresight ; and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good-sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Slavery - 1884 - 376 pages
...sense ; what foresight ; and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone ! His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be...only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good-sense of mankind, and of the public conscience.... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Biography - 1885 - 442 pages
...by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Emerson says of these words, " This, and one other American speech, that of John...Birmingham, can only be compared with each other, and no fourth." The next year, Feb. 29, 1864, the Hero of Vickshurg was called to the Lieutenant-Generalship... | |
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This, and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other, and with no fourth. 
