 | 1830 - 622 pages
...small granite obelisk, in case his country should ever vote a monument to his memory, — « Here lies buried, Thomas Jefferson, Author of the ' Declaration...Religious Freedom ; and Father of the University of Virgi' nia.' Thus marshalling his titles to public remembrance, he evidently meant to teach his countrymen... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...the long catalogue of his great, and splendid, and glorious services, reduced to this brief and modest summary ! Thus lived and thus died our sainted... | |
 | 1827 - 564 pages
...granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with. the following inscription: HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...the long catalogue of his great, and splendid, and glorious services, reduced to this brief and modest summary! Thus lived and thus died our sainted Patriots... | |
 | 1827 - 540 pages
...small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription: HERE LIES BCRIED THOMAS JKKFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the...the long catalogue of his great, and splendid, and glorious services, reduced to this brief and modest summary! Thus lived and thus died our sainted Patriots... | |
 | 1827 - 544 pages
...granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERK LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. 4t • All the long catalogue of his great, and splendid, and glorious services, reduced to this brief... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...proud career, in some moment of pardonable vanity, wrote his own epitaph. He speaks of himself as ' Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the...freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.' This epitaph should have been held sacred as the grave — should have been kept secret as the inmost... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 772 pages
...should be a granite obelisk, of small dimensions, with the following inscription : — " Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration...of Virginia, for Religious Freedom ; and Father of theUniversity of Virginia. ' ' * Judge Cranch's Memoir on the life, character, and writings of John... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 pages
...obelisk, of small dimensions, with the following inscription : — " Here lies buried Thomas Jefiferson, author of the Declaration of Independence ; of the...Statutes of Virginia, for Religious Freedom ; and Father oftheUnivorsity ofVirginia." * Judge Crunch's Memoir on the life, character, and writings of John A... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERE WAS BORIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence,...the long catalogue of his great, and splendid, and glorious services, reduced to this brief and modest summary ! Thus lived, and thus died, our sainted... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...a granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : " HEBE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia." BENJAMIN HARRISON. BENJAMIN HARRISON was the descendant of a family long distinguished in the history... | |
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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. 
