HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 4231871 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Udolpho Wolfe - Presidents - 1858 - 344 pages
...face of the pedestal a marble tablet was placed, with the following inscription : Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American...freedom, And father of the University of Virginia. The depredations of visitors necessitated the removal of this tablet from the monument to the mansion,... | |
| Daniel K. Bennett - North Carolina - 1858 - 156 pages
...last resting-place of Jefferson. " Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON", Author of the Declaration of Independence Of the statute of Virginia for religious...freedom And Father of the University of Virginia." ISAAC SHELBY died July 18th. Gen. GEORGE GRAHAM died . . . March 29th. "SACRED to the Memory of MAJOR... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...to bear the following inscription : HERE WAS RURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUT HOS OĆ THE DECLARATION OP AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA,...FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY The inscription for the base was : BORN Al-UIL 2D, 1743, 0. S. His wishes were carried out,' the blank... | |
| David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...granite obelisk, with this inscription : Here was buried THOMAS JEFFEKSON. Author of the Declaration of Independence ; Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious...Freedom : And Father of the University of Virginia. Jefferson's manner was simple but dignified, and his conversational powers were of the rarest value.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...most important of his public labors: "Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence ; of the Statute of Virginia for religious...freedom; and Father of the University of Virginia." He was governor of his own State, and a foreign minister. He lived until the fiftieth anniversary of... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1859 - 410 pages
...until * "Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, and of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia." ā Mr. Jeffersoris own inscription for his tomb. Tuckrr'a Life, 2d Vol. p. 497. Jiis declining health... | |
| John Savage - Presidential candidates - 1860 - 518 pages
...was;? ā a granite obelisk; and Senator Seward remarked that the inscription was, "Here is buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American...Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." " It is an appropriate inscription," said Senator Chase, "and worthily commemorates distinguished services.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 788 pages
...Jefferson's papers after his death : "HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF TUE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ; OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS...FREEDOM; AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA." 1 This was the forty-third regiment. The convoy also brought another regiment, and two battalions of... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 794 pages
...Jefferson's papers after his death : " HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ; OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS...FREEDOM ; AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA." 1 This was the forty-third regiment. The convoy also brought another regiment, and two battalions of... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...MONTICELLO, VA. Horo lies buried THOMAS JEPFERSON, Author of the Deelaration of Ameriean Indopendeneo, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. WILLIAM HOGARTH. Garrick's epitaph on Hogarth at Chiswick is well known. That written by Dr. Johnson... | |
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