 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...found among his papers after his death, in his own hand-writing, and is in 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. CHAPTER XXII.... | |
 | George White - Georgia - 1849 - 712 pages
...mark the spot where Jefferson lies. The following is the inscription upon his tomb : • Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration...American Independence, of the Statutes of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. ' Mr. Jefferson's life has been published,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 314 pages
...found among his papers after his death, in his own handwriting, and is in 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... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...found among his papers after his death, in his own handwriting, and is in 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... | |
 | New England - 1854 - 456 pages
...epitaph, found among his papers, after his death, in his own handwriting, in these words : Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, John Snell Aaron Moses Willeam -}- Richards John -J- Holmes... | |
 | Udolpho Wolfe - Presidents - 1858 - 342 pages
...southern face of the pedestal a marble tablet was placed, with the following inscription: 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 depredations... | |
 | John Savage - Presidential candidates - 1860 - 518 pages
...that there was;? — a granite obelisk; and Senator Seward remarked that the inscription was, "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 an appropriate... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 688 pages
...An inscription for his monument, which was found among his 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... | |
 | Sarah Nicholas Randolph - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1871 - 436 pages
...without any mouldings, surmounted by an obelisk of six feet height, each of a single stone ; on the faces of the obelisk the following inscription, and not...of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these,... | |
 | Politics, Practical - 1871 - 452 pages
...without any mouldings, surmounted by an obelisk of six feet height, each of a single stone ; on the faces of the obelisk the following inscription, and not a word more : HERE WAS BTJKIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia... | |
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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. 
