JAY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

TRAFY OF THE UDABESITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF

NY OF THE UNISIEITY OF CALIFORNIA • UBRARY OF THE UNNERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE JAVBESITY OF CALIPOS

Berbe

LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALISONNIA - LIDHANY OF THE LONGENITY 45 KALIPLAN.

"For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return."-Gen. iii. 19.

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HOULSTON AND WRIGHT

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PREFACE.

M7 1860

THE object of the present Volume is to offer to the Public a greater variety of original epitaphs than has hitherto appeared, the want of such variety having generally led to the repetition of common-place and inapplicable inscrip

tions.

The sacred Scriptures will ever be the most suitable source of inscriptions for the grave, but the affections of human beings continually call for a more definite 947008