 | Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pagine
...husbandman, for i heir subsistence, depend fork on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependairce 'begets subservience and venality,, suffocates the germ of: virtue, and prepares fit toofs for the designs of ambition. This, the natural, progress and consequence of the arts, has s6W*etimes... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1805 - 454 pagine
...husbandman for his substance, depend for it on the casualities and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ...ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but, generally speaking,... | |
 | Jesse Buel - 1840 - 342 pagine
...the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subserviency and degeneracy, suifocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus the natural consequence and progress of the arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pagine
...language of Thomas Jefferson, with reference to those who dance attendance upon ambition and wealth: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates...and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." * * We beg leave, in some degree, to exeTnptour own State from these unmeasured denunciations, .and... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 514 pagine
...heaven, to their own soil and industry (as does the husbandman), for their subsistence, depend upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence...tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural consequence and progress of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 508 pagine
...heaven, to their own soil and industry (as does the husbandman), for their subsistence, depend upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence...tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural consequence and progress 'of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 560 pagine
...depend not on the casualities and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subserviency and degeneracy, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus, the natural consequences and progress of the arts, have sometimes, perhaps been retarded by accidental... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pagine
...in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates...and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility ; and he who knows most knows best how... | |
 | 1886 - 338 pagine
...infidelity to these principles. It believes, as Thomas Jefferson did, that dependence begets subservienee and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designing and the ambitions; and also that corruption of morals in the mass.of cultivators of the soil... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 548 pagine
...the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. * * * Dependence begets subservience, and venality suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares for it tools for the designs of ambition. Thus, the natural progress and consequence of the arts have... | |
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Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence,... 
