The conflict with the Seminoles was one of the Legacies left by Jackson to Van Buren; it lasted as long as the Revolutionary War, cost thirty millions of dollars, and baffled the efforts of several generals and numerous troops, who had previously shown themselves equal to any in the world.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
Since the reign of Nerva, the towns had the right of receiving Legacies and bequests.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
But his life was an extremely happy one on the whole; the Legacies he received, placed him in comfortable circumstances, and if, outside his own fraternity, his art was but little encouraged, that was the lot of all landscape painters.
"Constable"
C. Lewis Hind