Dear Madam: — I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-general of 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... Abraham Lincoln - Página 319por Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 379 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1923 - 260 páginas
...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile yon from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot...thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that oar heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory... | |
| 1921 - 884 páginas
...a living soul. Who was it wrote that letter to Mrs. Bixby on the loss of her five sons in battle? ' I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic that they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1925 - 458 páginas
...sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1925 - 478 páginas
...sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that... | |
| Waldo Warder Braden - 1990 - 278 páginas
...sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid... | |
| William Gerber - 1994 - 312 páginas
...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 overhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks... | |
| St. Clair Augustin Mulholland - 1996 - 646 páginas
...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...Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly The Story of the n6th Regiment. Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only... | |
| David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 páginas
...widow who, he was told, was "the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle." "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement," he wrote her, "and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride... | |
| 1910 - 538 páginas
...sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that... | |
| Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - 2003 - 186 páginas
...sons who have died gloriously on the fields of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. (Lincoln 766) Equally, he is using synecdoche in Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's sense when, in a letter... | |
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