 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 words...  An American Bible - Página 112editado por - 1918 - 372 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Henry Watterson - 1899 - 62 páginas
...following letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, a poor widow who had lost five sons killed in battle. MY DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 páginas
...letter to Mrs. Bixby of Boston, a poor widow who had lost five sons, killed in battle : — MY DEAK MADAM, — I have been shown in the files of the War...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 páginas
...fullest proof — as when to the Massachusetts mother whose five sons had fallen in battle he wrote " I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of...you from the 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... | |
 | 1899 - 676 páginas
...University as " a specimen of the purest English and most elegant diction extant" : DEAR MADAME : — -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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 páginas
...to see it tried on him personally. (November 21, 1864, Letter to Mrs. Blxby— Van Buren, p. 392.) Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I 35 cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Charles Washington Moores - 1900 - 156 páginas
...friend, • A. LINCOLN. To a mother whose five sons had died for their country he wrote this letter: — DEAR MADAM, — I have been shown in the files of...you from the 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... | |
 | 1900 - 308 páginas
...can't spare that man : he fights !' I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming ; but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation... | |
 | 1900 - 654 páginas
...(England) university halls as a specimen of the purest English and the most elegant diction extant : "Dear Madam:— I have been shown in the files of...mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the battle field. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 páginas
...skilful commanders. XXXVI LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO MRS. BIXBY OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS November 21, 1864. Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may 197 be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 páginas
...wrote to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, Mass., the followinj letter which needs 110 comment or explanation : " DEAR MADAM : I have been shown, in the files of the...you from the 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... | |
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