 Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain...  Complete Works - Page 275by Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 484 pages
...assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN." No more beautiful expression of sympathy can be found in literature. Compare it with the sordid consolation... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts. This letter, addressed to one conspicuous among the thousands... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...be any word of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming ; but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation...very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." • The Thirty-eighth Congress commenced its second session on the 5th of December, 1864. On the following... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation...freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM Lis-cour. To Mrs. BIXBT, Boston, Massachusetts. This letter, addressed to one conspicuous among the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...that may be found in the thanks «f the Republic they died to save. I pray that our HeavenlyFather may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave...freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM Lixoour. To Mrs. BIXBT, Boston, Massachusetts. This letter, addressed to one conspicuous among the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave yon only the cherished memory of the lovei and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours...freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LIXCOLS. To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts. This letter, addressed to one conspicuous among the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that mast be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the...freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LJNCOLN. To Mrs. BIXBT, Boston, Massachusetts. ^ This letter, addressed to one conspicuous among the... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid BO costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. " Yours...very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." The Thirty- eighth Congress commenced its second session on the 5th of December, 1864. On the following... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation...very sincerely and respectfully, " ABRAHAM LINCOLN. " To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts." One summer's day, in walking along the shaded path which leads... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss BO overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation...— Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLI}." We left Hood busily engaged in the orthodox task of destroying Sherman's communications... | |
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