 | Literature - 1873 - 828 pages
...inscription reciting that he who sleeps below was " Author of the Declaration of Independence, and of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." The University, which we presently see standing in the very center of a lovely region, is his monument.... | |
 | Sarah Nicholas Randolph - Politics, Practical - 1871 - 464 pages
...a word more : HEBE WAS BUEIED 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. [It] to be of the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 980 pages
...of the three things recorded. He describes himself as " Author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia ;" directing that, save name and date of birth and death, there should be " not a word more" placed... | |
 | Politics, Practical - 1871 - 450 pages
...a word more : HIRI WAS RCRISD THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the Unlvcr-iu of Virginia; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.... | |
 | George Long - Conduct of life - 1872 - 404 pages
...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 pomp in Westminster... | |
 | George Long - Conduct of life - 1872 - 400 pages
...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 pomp in Westminster... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...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 the physical... | |
 | Literature - 1873 - 968 pages
...biÂrre*. ffAßsm THOMAS JEFFEKSOX. ГГШЕ " Author of the Declaration of AmerJL ican Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia," as Thomas Jefferson wrote for his own epitaph, was a little more than thirty-three years of age when... | |
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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: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered. 
