 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
 | Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 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. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON ! PARIS, December 4, 1872. . . . Oddly enough when I got... | |
 | Հարութիւն Հովանես Չագմագճեան - 1914 - 448 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. .pna_n£h nPncnhir ire ()uiTiu'lil1 ui'h uiu^iT,n'liniif fini jif l, iu'll iuni ii iii iu 4 i"L"/i... | |
 | Howard Roscoe Driggs - 1914 - 464 pages
...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of a Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly...very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts. What in these extracts from Lincoln's writings makes them so... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 218 pages
...anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the 15 solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS MARCH 4, 1865 FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN : At this second appearing to take the... | |
 | George Burton Hotchkiss, Celia Anne Drew - 1916 - 392 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...Yours very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN The quality of character does not always depend upon the individual writer. It is sometimes a matter... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 502 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. Dr. Samuel Johnson to Lord Chesterfield Feb. 7, 1755. MY LORD, I have been lately informed by the proprietor... | |
 | 1917 - 834 pages
...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of a Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Prose may be very formal or very free. Verse likewise may move with stately... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1917 - 662 pages
...the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that your heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Below are examples of friendly letters of condolence. DEAR KATHARINE : — The news of your father's... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 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. LINCOLN'S VERSE The poetic vein in Abraham Lincoln cropped out in several compositions in rhyme that... | |
 | Samuel Scoville - 1918 - 100 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. Time went on. The war was drawing to its close. On the day of the receipt of the news of Lee's surrender... | |
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