 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...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 perhaps... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...after his death : " HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ; OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM : AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA." 1 This was the forty-third regiment. The convoy also brought another regiment, and two battalions of... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...words : — " 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. Madison sleeps in a country churchyard ; so does Monroe ; so does John Quincy Adams. Jackson slumbers... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 358 pages
...these words : " 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. Madison sleeps in a country church-yard : so does Monroe ; so does John Quincy Adams. Jackson slumbers... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...— " 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 Adams and Jefferson, p. 426. ascertain all the causes which gave them eminence and distinction... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...following inscription :— Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. The age of Mr. Jefferson at the time of his death, was a little over eighty-three years. His wife died... | |
 | Alexander Jones - Names, Personal - 1855 - 160 pages
...following inscription : — " HERE LIES THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence ; of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom ; and Father of the University of Virginia" BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Virginia, was chairman of the committee which reported the Declaration of Independence.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...following inscription : — Here was buried THOJJAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. The age of Mr. Jefferson at the time of his death, was a little over eighty-three years. His wife died... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...: " Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence ; of the Statutes of Virginia for Religious Freedom ; and Father of the University of Virginia." * Judge Cranch's Memoirs of tho Life, Character, and "Writings of John Adams. TO A CEICKET THOU lonely,... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - Randolph County (W. Va.) - 1857 - 312 pages
...inscription : HEKE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFEBSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ; OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, . AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. The marble slab has disappeared entirely, and of the obelisk there remains but a shapeless heap of... | |
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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. 
