| Sarah Nicholas Randolph - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1871 - 436 pages
...of the obelisk the following inscription, and not a wor,d more : HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence,...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... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 980 pages
...himself it is one 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... | |
| George Long - Conduct of life - 1872 - 404 pages
...epitaph he says nothing of having been President. This is all : " Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence,...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
...epitaph he says nothing of having been President. This is all : " Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence,...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
...monument, which was found among his papers at his death, reads: " Here lies buried, Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence,...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... | |
| United States - 1873 - 626 pages
...his Heath, was found an inscription for his tombstone, written by himself, in which are the wnrds " Author of the Declaration of American Independence,...Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." The truth probably is, that Jefferson gave to the Declaration of Independence its literary shape, the... | |
| Literature - 1873 - 968 pages
...IJ.ipev. I CL* 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... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...may expect, Far more enlarged and more correct, AT MONTICELLO, VA. Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence,...Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. WILLIAM DOOARTH. Gamck's epitaph on Hogarth at Chiswick is well known That written by Dr. Johnson is... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...state in honor of Thomas Jefferson, which bore the inscription : " Here is buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence,...Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia." "It is," said Senator Chase, "an appropriate inscription, and worthily commemorates distinguished services.... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...may expect, Far more enlarged and more correct. AT MONTICELLO, VA. Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence,...Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. WILLIAM HOGARTH. G-arrick's epitaph on Hogarth at Chiswick is well known That written by Dr. Johnson... | |
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