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. Science - Page 261920Full view - About this book
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 pages
...and it is in these words : HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF TIM: DECLARATION op AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. " Mr. Jefferson's religious creed," says Tucker, " as described in his correspondence, cannot... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pages
...of, that a granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. All the long... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...of, that a granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, , Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. All the long... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1848 - 146 pages
...be placed upon it. He wished his monument to be a small granite obelisk, with this inscription:— " Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia." JAMES MADISON, THE FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. »AMES MADISON, of Virginia, was... | |
 | 1850 - 618 pages
...words but voluminous meaning, which he dictated for his tomb, in his old age, proclaimed him as the " author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia." Two of the earliest and ablest speeches of Fox were against... | |
 | 1850 - 624 pages
...words but voluminous meaning, which he dictated for his tomb, in his old age, proclaimed him as the " author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia." Two of the earliest and ablest speeches of Fox were against... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...of, that a granite obelisk, of small dimensions, should be erected, with the following inscription : HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for Religions Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. All the long... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 634 pages
...was found among his papers, containing' the following inscription to be placed on his monument: — " Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statutes of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." Eulogies on... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 pages
...the following inscription, which was found among Mr. Jefferson's papers after his death : " HERE LIES hrased, in verse, by NP Willis : " It is not the fear...another breath I ask thee now ; I can die with a lip VIRGINIA." 1 This was the forty-third regiment. The convoy also brought another regiment, and two battalions... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 pages
...and it is in these words: HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR or THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. " Mr. Jefferson's religious creed," says Tucker, " as described in his correspondence, cannot... | |
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