 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1839 - 646 pages
...granite obelisk over the grave of Jefferson bears this inscription, written by himself: Thomat Jtfferson. Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia. Scottsville, on the James River, is a flourishing little town, which owes its prosperity to the James... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 pages
...over the grave of Jefferson bears this inscription, written by himself : T'huma* Jcfferion, .Julhor of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of...LynchBurg, situated on the southern bank of James river. It is a neat and flourishing town, carrying on an active trade, and containing some manufactories.... | |
 | William Seymour Tyler - Church and college - 1855 - 240 pages
...lands who go on pilgrimage to the tomb at Monticello, read there the inscription : " Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia." The inscription was penned by himself, and placed there by his own direction. He knew that knowledge... | |
 | William O. Blake - Geography - 1855 - 1010 pages
...left an inscription for his monument, since inscribed on it, written by himself : " Thomas Jefferson, author of the declaration of independence, and founder of the university of Virginia." Virginia has a literary fund, the permanent capital of which, for the year 1849, amounted to $1,561,160... | |
 | William Seymour Tyler - Church and college - 1855 - 232 pages
...lands who go on pilgrimage to the tomb at Monticello, read there the inscription : " Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia." The inscription was penned by himself, and placed there by his own direction. He knew that knowledge... | |
 | William Seymour Tyler - Church and college - 1877 - 350 pages
...lands who go on pilgrimage to the tomb at Monticello, read there the inscription : " Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia." The inscription was penned by himself, and placed there by his own direction. He knew that knowledge... | |
 | Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...what he wished to be remembered, penned for his own tombstone the inscription, " Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia." The liberty proclaimed in the declaration was to be perpetuated by the university. This is in happy... | |
 | United States - 1888 - 480 pages
...what he wished to be remembered, penned for his own tombstone the inscription, " Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Yirginia." The liberty proclaimed in the declaration was to be perpetuated by the university. This... | |
 | John Jay Lane - 1891 - 352 pages
...masses) the highest possible attainments ' "Mr. Jefferson wrote his own epitaph: 'Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia.' This is his epitaph; written in the maturity of his years and wisdom, in view of the solemnity of the... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1912 - 620 pages
...Lee was the blood relative of John Marshall, the great Chief Justice, and of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. Marshall's mother, Mary Keith; Jefferson's mother, Jane Randolph, and Lee's grandmother, Mary Bland,... | |
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Monticello, read there the inscription : " Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Founder of the University of Virginia. 
