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Page 12 - Willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have here...
Page 49 - Why do we mourn departing friends Or shake at death's alarms? 'tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms.
Page 156 - Five generations have since passed away; and still the wall of Londonderry is to the Protestants of Ulster what the trophy of Marathon was to the Athenians.
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