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Every face wore a look of deepest sorrow at the loss of one who , wise and beyond reproach , had just carried the country through its terrible struggle . In the greatest cities of the land , men streamed down from their homes to the ...
Every face wore a look of deepest sorrow at the loss of one who , wise and beyond reproach , had just carried the country through its terrible struggle . In the greatest cities of the land , men streamed down from their homes to the ...
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... of such a President , at such a conjuncture , is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep , sincere , and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven .
... of such a President , at such a conjuncture , is an afflicting dispensation which bows a disappointed and stricken nation in sorrow more deep , sincere , and universal than ever before supplicated the compassion of pitying Heaven .
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Instantly joy gave place to sorrow , the strains of exultation changed to funeral marches , and the military , with arms reversed , returned to their camps . At Cincinnati , Columbus , Wheeling , Louisville , St. Louis , and even at San ...
Instantly joy gave place to sorrow , the strains of exultation changed to funeral marches , and the military , with arms reversed , returned to their camps . At Cincinnati , Columbus , Wheeling , Louisville , St. Louis , and even at San ...
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If your hearts are oppressed by events more calculated to awaken profound sorrow and regret than any which have hitherto occurred in our history , mine mingles its deepest regrets and sorrows with yours . > It is to be hoped that the ...
If your hearts are oppressed by events more calculated to awaken profound sorrow and regret than any which have hitherto occurred in our history , mine mingles its deepest regrets and sorrows with yours . > It is to be hoped that the ...
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Let our principal anxiety now be that this new sorrow may be a sanctified sorrow ; that it may lead us to deeper repentance , to a more humbling sense of our dependence upon God , and to the more unreserved consecration of ourselves and ...
Let our principal anxiety now be that this new sorrow may be a sanctified sorrow ; that it may lead us to deeper repentance , to a more humbling sense of our dependence upon God , and to the more unreserved consecration of ourselves and ...
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| Title | The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President, John Gilmary Shea |
| Editor | John Gilmary Shea |
| Publisher | Bunce & Huntington, 1865 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| ISBN | 0608364290, 9780608364292 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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