 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1788 - 714 pagine
...facred fire, which otherwife might efcape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mafs of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnimed an example. It is the mark fet on thofe, who not looking up to heaven, to their own foil and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pagine
...fire, which otherwife might efcape from tfie face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in the mafs of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furniihed an example. It is the mark fet on thofe, who not looking up to heaven, to their own foil... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pagine
...chosen people, \vhgs$ breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial arid genuine virtue; It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of tfc* earth. Corruption of morals wi the mass tiPe&ti' tivatorsis a phenomenon of Which no age-«6*... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - 1805 - 590 pagine
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which Otherwise might escape "from the Tace of the earth.—Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1805 - 454 pagine
...the focus in which he keeps up that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape 731 from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example : it is.a mark set on those who, instead of looking up to Heaven,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 586 pagine
...unconscious of its secret ravages. It is a remark of Mr Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, that ' corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example.' That history will bear out this remark in its fullest latitude we doubt not, for it accords with reason... | |
 | Frederick Butler - 1821 - 474 pagine
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 pagine
...chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no nge... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pagine
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculir deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Alexander Trotter - 1839 - 478 pagine
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might... 
