... Small a new upcoming faculty member. In 1762 he began the study of law under another great teacher, George Wythe, who embodied the classical concepts of virtue and civility, and who transmitted these to Jefferson. In 1767 Jefferson was admitted to the bar, having mastered the works ... to live in his partly constructed home, Monticello. As the uprising of the American Revolution broke, Jefferson was a leading lawyer, successful planter, lover of books, science, and music, a devoted husband and father and at the time a loyal subject of the king. For the next three years as a ... already...

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