 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
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...papers at his death, reads: " Here lies 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." The time was approaching for its employment, as the old statesman lingered with some of... | |
 | George Long - 1872 - 398 pages
...President. This is all : " Here lies 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." When our great taxmaster dies, who is perhaps not yet born, we will bury him with regal... | |
 | 1873 - 626 pages
...for his tombstone, written by himself, in which are the wnrds " Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." The truth probably is, that Jefferson gave to the Declaration of Independence its literary... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...correct, AT MONTICELLO, VA. Here lies 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. WILLIAM DOOARTH. Gamck's epitaph on Hogarth at Chiswick is well known That written by Dr.... | |
 | Edward King - 1875 - 826 pages
...high, on which is the epitaph which he himself desired to have inscribed on his tomb : " Here Lies Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...Religious Freedom And Father of the University of Virginia.'' The University at Charlottesville is Jefferson's noblest monument. So long as it endures,... | |
 | Edward King - 1875 - 840 pages
...high, on which is the epitaph which he himself desired to have inscribed on his tomb: V " Here Lies Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...Religious Freedom ; And Father of the University of Virginia." The University at Charlottesville is Jefferson's noblest monument. So long as it endures,... | |
 | Edward King - 1875 - 862 pages
...high, on which is the epitaph which he himself desired to have inscribed on his tomb : " Here Lies Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...Religious Freedom And Father of the University of Virginia." The University at Charlottesville is Jefferson's noblest monument. So long as it endures,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1875 - 936 pages
...which bore the inscription : " Here is 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." "It is," said Senator Chase, "an appropriate inscription, and worthily commemorates distinguished... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...correct. AT MONTICELLO, VA. Here lies 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. WILLIAM HOGARTH. G-arrick's epitaph on Hogarth at Chiswick is well known That written by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Bowen - 1876 - 210 pages
...but political opponents. On a plain marble slab at Monticello is the following inscription: HERE LIES THOMAS JEFFERSON: Author of the Declaration of Independence;...Religious Freedom; and Father of the University of Virginia. Benjamin Harrison, chairman of the Committee that reported the Declaration, was descended... | |
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