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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:Wythepedia: The George Wythe Encyclopedia}} ...ndence]], Chancellor for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and first professor of law in America.
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  • ...g's [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006255122 ''Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution''] (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860), 214.]] ...a short assessment of Wythe's irreproachable character. If Weems did visit Wythe at his home in Richmond, the meeting would have taken place in 1791 or late
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  • <big>''No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than G. Wythe.''</big> &mdash; [[Thomas Jefferson]] ...former president still held for his mentor and friend fourteen years after Wythe's death.
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  • ...America being separated by the Atlantic, America would not be at the level of freedom it has achieved. ...one." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib002184 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.'']]
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  • ...he's question about Carr's course of study and which materials to use that Wythe had asked about in two separate letters. ...pg 1." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib002952 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
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  • ...d Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge''}} ===By a Society of Gentlemen===
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  • ...as was a Greek from Lydia in Asia Minor, or at least he spent a great deal of time there while writing.<ref>Ibid., 270.</ref> ...Classical scholars of the 1800s harshly criticized Pausanias, accusing him of plagiarism and deceit, claiming that he did not read the works from which h
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Parson Blair's Snack.&mdash;Chancellor Wythe"}} ...ons1884Chapter23.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Detail of Chapter XXIII from George Wythe Munford's [[Two Parsons|''The Two Parsons.'']]]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Memoir of the Author"}} ...urt of Chancery (1852)|''Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery,'']] edited by [[wikipedia:Benjamin Blake Minor|B.B. Minor]], Rich
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Chancellor Wythe's Death"}} ...le:MunfordTwoParsons1884Title.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Title page from George Wythe Munford's ''The Two Parsons'' (Richmond, VA: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884).]]
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  • ...n of [[Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery (1852)|Wythe's Reports]] (1852). <blockquote><center><hr width="20%" /><br />'''GEORGE WYTHE.'''</center>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry''}} ...00px|Frontispiece from William Wirt's ''Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry'' (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817).]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Biographical Sketch of the Judges of the Court of Appeals"}} ...dges1833.pdf|''Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia,'']] ed. Daniel Call (Richmond, VA: Robert I. Smith, 1833).]]
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  • ...27, Library of Congress.</ref> The current location of Peale's portrait of Wythe is unknown, and it was probably dispersed with Jefferson's estate after his ...t necessarily mean the miniature is not, however, an authentic portrait of Wythe.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence''}} ...ration from John Sanderson's ''Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence,'' Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1823). "Drawn and Engra
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Notes of Major William Pierce on the Federal Convention of 1787"}} ...elected to the [[wikipedia:Georgia House of Representatives|Georgia House of Representatives]], and sent to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphi
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Republican Court: Or, American Society in the Days of Washington''}} ...] (New York: D. Appleton, 1855), subtitled as having "Twenty-One Portraits of Distinguished Women, Engraved from Original Pictures by Woolaston, Copley,
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Teaching of George Wythe"}} ...es,'' ed. Steve Sheppard (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999). Image courtesy of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?421201 New York Public L
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"The Seals of Virginia"}} ...50px|Illustration of state seals from Edward S. Evans' article, "The Seals of Virginia."]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:The George Wythe Room at the Wolf Law Library}} ...ction Title List]]. For a complete list of the books owned by Wythe, see [[Wythe's Library]].
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:George Wythe Room, Shelf N-5}} |caption=Pausanias's Descriptions of Greece
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The History of Virginia''}} ...4.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Title page of volume four of John Burk's ''History of Virginia'' (1816) continued by Skelton Jones and Louis Hue Girardin.]]
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  • |pages=[12], LII, 695, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) ...ucation of Cyrus". Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes.
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Report on the Great Seal of Virginia"}} ...port on the Great Seal of Virginia]]," ''Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia'' (1930), Doc. No. 7.</ref>
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  • ...descriptions laid out by committee and reported to the Virginia Convention of 1776. ...df|"The Seals of Virginia,"]] ''Seventh Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library'' (1909-1910), 7-47.</ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE: ''Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States''}} ...dia:KennedyMemoirsOfTheLifeOfWilliamWirt1850Vol1.pdf|''Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt'']] (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1850).]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"George Wythe"}} ...k's essay on [[George Wythe]], from the ''John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph-Macon College,'' 3, no. 4 (June 1912), 283-313.]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:Randolph's "History of Virginia"}} .... He was governor of Virginia from (1787-1788), the first attorney general of the
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  • ...f the Reverend Andrew Burnaby, by an unknown artist (1789). Image courtesy of [http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ "Your Paintings,"] and the Leices ...orth America, in the Years 1759 and 1760: With Observations upon the State of the Colonies'']] (London: T. Payne, 1798).</ref>
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"An Account and History of the Tazewell Family" (1823)}} ...ouswor01gibb ''Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire, with Memoirs of His Life and Writing, Composed by Himself: Illustrated from His Letters, wi
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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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  • ...mentioned can be found in the Wolf Law Library's [[Wythe's Library|George Wythe Collection]]. ...iamsburg. As a first-hand [[:Category:Descriptions of Wythe|description of Wythe]], it is more reliable than Parson Weem's anecdote, "[[Honest Lawyer|The Ho
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  • ...itle.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Title page from Howe's ''Historical Collections of Virginia'' (1845).]] ...escriptions'']] (Charleston, S.C.: Babcock, 1845), 252-253.</ref> The bulk of this biographical sketch is taken from Lieber's [[Encyclopaedia Americana|'
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families''}} ...f>John Meriweather McAllister, and Lura Boulton Tandy, eds., ''Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families'' (Columbia, MS: E.W. Stephens, 1906), 134-1
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Chancellor Wythe's Opinion Respecting Religion, Delivered by Himself."}} ...arding his "real sentiments about religion," from a dinner conversation at Wythe's home in Richmond, Virginia.
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  • ...A Memorial Containing Travels through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, Born Dec. 24, 1745 (Old Style) Died April 19, 1813''}} ...ece from the ''Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush'' (Philadelphia: Made at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf, 1905). From a painting by [[wikipedia:|Thomas Sully]].]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Book of Negroes''}} ...74&Name=James%20Rea "Book of Negroes,"] ''African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition,'' Nova Scotia Archives, accessed March 1, 2018.</ref
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