 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...  Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him - Page 28by Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart - 1919 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 484 pages
...assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN." No more beautiful... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 864 pages
...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...that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. To Mrs. BIXBY,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 pages
...not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the E^epublic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father...must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. To MRS. BIXBY, Boston,... | |
 | George Washington Colman - 1865 - 20 pages
...refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they have died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." 13 " O slow to smite, and swift to spare ! Gentle and merciful and just... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 pages
...that may be found in the thanks «f the Republic they died to save. I pray that our HeavenlyFather may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave...that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM Lixoour. To Mrs. BIXBT,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 972 pages
...found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage tlic anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the...must be yours* to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. To MRS. BIXBY, Boston,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 pages
...Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave yon only the cherished memory of the lovei and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, ABRAHAM LIXCOLS. To Mrs. BIXBY,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 750 pages
...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...that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. " Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, " ABRAHAM LINCOLN. " To Mrs. BIXBY,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 pages
...attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But 3 cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks...that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. " Yours very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN. " To Mrs. Bixby,... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 pages
...attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss BO overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks...must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. — Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLI}." We left... | |
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