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180. AFFLICTION, Sympathy in.—

Long
tried in the same school of affliction, no loss
which can rend the human heart is unknown to
mine; and a like one particularly, at about the
same period in life, had taught me to feel the
sympathies of yours. The same experience has
proved that time, silence and occupation are
its only medicines.—
To Governor Claiborne. Washington ed. v, 520.
(M. 1810)