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 from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died... KINGS OF THE PLATFORM AND PULPIT - Página 430por MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 páginas
...bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pricle that mast be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the...of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. November 21, 1864. — LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,... | |
| Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 páginas
...attempt to beguile 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...laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Very respectfully yours, ABRAHAM LINCOLN." As a specimen of simple, pure, elegant English, as well... | |
| Mary Ashton Livermore - 1896 - 748 páginas
...attempt to beguile you of the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks...Yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 1864. Mrs. Bixby, to whom this letter was written, had a sick... | |
| 1918 - 504 páginas
...attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks...so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." Daniel W. Thomas Ambulance Company No. 3 Globe. Arizona Corporal George F. Company F, I 1 7th Enei... | |
| Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 páginas
...be any 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...respectfully, A. LINCOLN. Contrast this exquisite prose poem with the answer he made to General Grant, who asked him whether he should make an effort... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 196 páginas
...attempt to beguile 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 freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. To Thurlow Weed March 15, 1865 [This most interesting letter, written a month before... | |
| William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 páginas
...attempt to beguile 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...so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." His regard for the soldier himself had many forms of expression, but none finer than his gift to the... | |
| 1899 - 676 páginas
...attempt to beguile 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...laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 600 601 Robert Collyer laid the foundation for his... | |
| 1899 - 74 páginas
...bereavements and leave only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride which must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." As his towering form leaned over the wounded Sickles when the stoutest heart scarcely dared to hope... | |
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