 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 páginas
...grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may as-1 suage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and... | |
 | Concord (N.H.) - 1891 - 800 páginas
...mother, losing all her five sons; to whom Abraham Lincoln wrote of the solemn pride that must be hers to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Remember the little army of nurses, who gave many lives with a courage not surpassed on the field.... | |
 | MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 páginas
...you from a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. Contrast this exquisite prose-poem with the answer he made to General Grant, who asked... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1893 - 464 páginas
...five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle" he wrote among other comforting words: " I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish...only the cherished memory of the loved and lost." To Mrs. Gurney, the excellent Quakeress, he wrote: " It has been your purpose to strengthen my reliance... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 páginas
...grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Letter to General Grant. Washington. January 19, 1865 Please read and answer this letter as though... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 páginas
...grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. X November 21, 1864. — LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 21, 1864.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 páginas
...grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Letter to General Grant. Washington. January 19, 1865 Please read and answer this letter as though... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 410 páginas
...purity of its expression. whelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 21, 1864. My dear Sir: I now propose that Smithson... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 páginas
...beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to...of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. Contrast this exquisite prose-poem with the answer he made to General Grant, when Grant... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 páginas
...exhausted." • LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY, OF BOSTON, WHOSE FIVE SONS HAD FALLEN IN BATTLE : NOV. 21,1864. " I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish...so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." • COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS, 1860. " Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances... | |
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... 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... 
