 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 páginas
...Doctor," replied Mr. Lincoln, "if I had to draw a pen across, and erase my whole life from existence, and had one poor gift or choice left as to what I should...that speech, and leave it to the world unerased." More than a year afterwards he was dining with a party of friends at Bloomington when that speech became... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 538 páginas
...the mourner: " Well, Doctor, if I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." With others he afterwards argued earnestly the wisdom and policy as well as the truth of that speech,... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 páginas
...contemptuous, replied, " Well, Doctor, if I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...that speech, and leave it to the world unerased.'" Douglas was Lincoln's opponent ; and on November 2, 1858, Douglas was elected, in virtue, however,... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 536 páginas
...the mourner : " Well, Doctor, if I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." With others he afterwards argued earnestly the wisdom and policy as well as the truth of that speech,... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1884 - 716 páginas
...the mourner : " Well, Doctor, if I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." With others he afterwards argued earnestly the wisdom and policy as well as the truth of that speech,... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 928 páginas
...the wisest thing I ever said. If I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...that speech, and leave it to the world unerased." These are the words that he prized so highly, and which, for the time, cost him so much : " If we could... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 páginas
...the wisest thing I ever said. If I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...that speech, and leave it to the world unerased." These are the words that he prized so highly, and which, for the time, cost him so much : " If we could... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 páginas
...him," and one of them was answered, " If I had to draw a pen and erase my whole life from existence, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what...choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." Well-known voices from the Atlantic States, and from Republicans in Congress, had already urged the... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 páginas
...Lincoln's answer was a noble one : "Well, Doctor, if I had to draw a pen across and erase my whole life, and I had' one poor gift or choice left, as to what...choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased." Another important result of the campaign, aside from its effect in unifying the Republican party, was... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 páginas
...Webster's effort was carefully read by Lincoln and served in part as his model. CO 2 ' well-defined. Numbers of his friends distant from Springfield, on...arranged the details of a public reception on the 9th of July, when he delivered from the balcony of the Tremont House a speech intended as an answer... | |
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If I had to draw a pen across my record, and erase my whole life from sight, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what I should save from the wreck, I should choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased. 
