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  • ...ssion of Wythe's bequest.</ref> For 200 years, very little was known about Wythe's library other than its existence within Jefferson's massive collection. ...the|George Wythe's]] ''[[Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery]]'' (1795).</p>]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:George Wythe Collection Title List}} ...edu/library/ Wolf Law Library.] The Wythe Room houses the library's George Wythe Collection.]]
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  • ...he to Henry Laurens]], dated February 27, 1778. Image from ''The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.'']] --> ...notable men of his time and it is from their papers that we piece together the Chancellor's collection.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Commentaries on the Laws of England''}} |shorttitle=Commentaries on the Laws of England
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  • ...nd edition faithfully corrected according to divers ancient manuscripts of the same booke by Edm. Wingate, Gent. |publisher=Printed by the assignes of John Moore Esquire
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  • ...63. His judicial and writing careers continued until 1782, the year of his death.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ...William David Evans, "Introduction" in M. Pothier, ''A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, or Contracts'', vol. 1 (London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1806),
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes of This Nation''}} |shorttitle=A Treatise of the Principal Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes
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  • ...edents in Conveyancing: Containing Great Variety of Curious Draughts, Many of Them on Special Occations, Drawn or Settled by Mr. Piggot, Northey, Webb, a ...ng a case in court.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Pigott was the last Catholic called to the bar until 1791.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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  • ...iefs, and other topics, left in manuscript form at the time of Pothier’s death, were later published between 1776 and 1778.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ...igations1802Headpiece.jpg|center|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
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  • ...s essay ''On Crimes and Punishments'' in 1764.<ref>''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', s.v. "Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794)."</ref><br /> ...unishments1767Headpiece.jpg|left|thumb|400px|<center>Headpiece, first page of text.</center>]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Principles of Equity''}} |shorttitle=Principles of Equity
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  • ...ligious warfare” of the time and the cultural decline it produced within the church.<ref>“Erasmus” in ''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia'', 6th Edit ...367.</ref> Erasmus remained a part of the Roman Catholic Church until his death.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion''}} |shorttitle=Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
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  • ...tizen, taking the name "Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus." He spent the majority of his life in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaeronea Chaeronea], Athens, [ht ...Louis B. Wright, “Thomas Jefferson and the Classics,” ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' 87, no. 3 (1943): 222–223.</ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Patriarcha, or, The Natural Power of Kings''}} |shorttitle=Patriarcha, or, The Natural Power of Kings
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  • ...of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke''}} ...ed by F. W. Sanders, was more highly regarded.<ref>Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', 143.</ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery''}} |shorttitle=Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery
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  • ...ive of the Royal Family, and Some Observations Relating to the Prerogative of a Queen Consort''}} |shorttitle=Reports of Select Cases in All the Courts of Westminster-Hall
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  • ...efore the Delegates in the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, King George the First, and His present Majesty''}} |shorttitle=Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer
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  • ...ces of the Court of Common-bench; of Such Select Cases as were Adjudged in the Said Courts ...''}} ===by Sir George Croke===
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  • ...e Reverend and Learned Judge, Thomas Owen, Esquire, One of the Justices of the Common Pleas''}} |shorttitle=The Reports of That Late and Learned Judge, Thomas Owen
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer''}} |shorttitle=Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer
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  • ...TLE: ''Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged, Upon Petitions and Writs of Error''}} ...ion to be an infringement upon its privileges,<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., r
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  • ...and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Speci |shorttitle=The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments
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  • ...ollection of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, from the Years 1689 to 1722''}} ===Great Britain, Court of Chancery===
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  • ...ice Cases in Law, Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough''}} |shorttitle=Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law
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  • |publisher=Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Samuel Keble ... ...nd)|Court of Common Pleas]]] from 1557-1582 and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1559 to 1582.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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  • ...Boroughbridge in Yorkshire,<ref>Ibid.</ref> and was appointed to the bench of Middle Temple in 1603.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1614, he was made a serjeant and, ...tReport1688Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Moore.</center>]]
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  • ...vation and research of events and people. Though his methods were still in the early, untested stages which would be greatly improved upon by more modern ...oriography of Thucydides.”<ref>Carl E. Schorske “History and the Study of Culture,” ''New Literary History'' 21, no. 2 (Winter 1990): 409.</ref><br
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The History of the Common Law of England Divided into Twelve Chapters''}} |shorttitle=The History of the Common Law of England
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  • |commontitle=The Tragedies of Aeschylus ...tou Aischylou Trageodiai Seozomenai Hepta'' (''The Seven Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus'').
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  • ===by Clement of Alexandria=== |author=[[:Category:Clement of Alexandria|Clement of Alexandria]]
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  • ...'' in 1729. Books 13-24 were published in 1732, three years after Clarke's death.<ref>Hugh Chisholm, ed. “Clarke, Samuel.” ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' ...ent Greeks viewed the poet as a blind minstrel wandering while he composed the poems, which were sung or chanted, accompanied by a lyre.<br/>
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  • ...of European civilization, customs, and institutions from the point of view of three Persians traveling in Europe. ...a.org/wiki/Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau].<ref>''The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy'', "Montesquieu."</ref>
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  • ...xchequer, from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary, to the tenth year of Queen Anne''}} |publisher=In the Savoy: J. Walthoe and J. Walthoe, jun.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Of the Nature of Things''}} |shorttitle=T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, in Six Books
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  • ...iamsburg,] listing books which would have been in [[Wythe's Library|George Wythe's library]].]] ...kin's]] and [[George Wythe the Colonial Briton|Hemphill's]] biographies of Wythe to populate her bibliography.
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  • '''Timeline for Wythe's Papers''' ...n for Virginia to [[George Wythe]] in Philadelphia, which Wythe conveys to the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg.
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  • ...age?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page003.db&recNum=202 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]] ...The arrangements as to the way and the place where to spend the remainder of my days depended upon this. I find myself in a labyrinth; and my mind, tire
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  • ...at the [https://www.virginiacapitol.gov/ Virginia State Capitol,] Library of Virginia art collection, Richmond, Virginia.</center>]] *Blackburn, Joyce. ''George Wythe of Williamsburg.'' New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery''}} ===Great Britain. Court of Chancery.===
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  • |publisher=Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins esq; for S. Keble ... D. Browne ... T. Benskin .. ...ew/article/16555 Levinz, Sir Creswell (1627–1701),]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed February 1
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Pleas of the Crown''}} |shorttitle=Pleas of the Crown
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  • ...h are Added Some Remarkable Cases Reported by Other Learned Pens Since His Death''}} |shorttitle=Reports and Cases Collected by the Learned Sr. John Popham
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Memoranda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe"}} ...nda Concerning the Death of Chancellor Wythe: Signed in the Aut[o]g[rap]h. of T[homas] H. Wynne and Rec[eive]d by Him from Dr. John Dove, Sept. 16, 1856.
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  • ...per Titles: With Notes and References to the Whole.]]'' 2nd ed. London, In the Savoy: 1722-1737. ====Court of Chancery====
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Character and Service of George Wythe"}} ...orgeWythe1932.pdf|The Character and Service of George Wythe]]" (PDF), from the Virginia State Bar Association's ''Annual Reports'' (August 1932).]]
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  • ..., Brown died of arsenic poisoning one week before Wythe’s own death from the same poison in June 1806. ...ame among free African-Americans in Richmond, and provides little evidence of his origins.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"George Wythe, America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall, and Clay"}} ...fessor1933.pdf|George Wythe, America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall, and Clay]]" (13MB PDF).]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:Legal Form Book of Peter Tinsley, Clerk of the High Court of Chancery}} ...e/10288/21116 Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library,] College of William and Mary.]]
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  • ...n Chains," after Josiah Wedgwood, from Erasmus Darwin's ''[[Botanic Garden|The Botanic Garden]]'' (New-York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1798), p.54.]] ...ese beliefs also influenced many of his students to oppose the institution of slavery.
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  • ...left|300px|Portrait by David Silvette (1979), [https://law.wm.edu/ College of William &amp; Mary Law School.]]] ...land, 1986).</ref> From these sources, however, we can sketch the contours of a successful legal career that extended over 30 years.
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