 | William A. Shutkin - 2001 - 300 pagine
...from a state of preeminence and grace to one of decadence. "The mobs of great cities," he declared, "add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores to the strength of the human body."" Tocqueville explained America's exceptionalism in less graphic... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pagine
...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. Query XIX, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 pagine
...Jefferson's urban vision is not to be found in his famous strictures in query 19 ("Manufactures") — "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" — but rather in query 3 ("Sea-Ports"). Jefferson left this query blank: "Having no ports but our... | |
 | Donald H. Parkerson - 2002 - 220 pagine
...Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government as sores do to the strength of the human body. ... a degeneracy ... a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.'"3 As early... | |
 | Douglas E. Booth - 2002 - 294 pagine
...wedded to it liberty and interest by the most lasting bonds."4 By contrast, Jefferson also wrote that "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."5 Jefferson early on expressed rural values and antiurban sentiments that remain influential... | |
 | Dale Jamieson - 2002 - 410 pagine
...158l argued that cities were inimical to good government: "The mobs of the great cities add just as much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body". In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Jefferson wrote: "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals,... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 pagine
...Jefferson's urban vision is not to be found in his famous strictures in query 19 ("Manufactures") — "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support ot pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" — but rather in query 3 ("Sea-Ports").... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - 2010 - 198 pagine
...work-shops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these... | |
 | Daniel Dagenais - 2003 - 628 pagine
...accompagnant ce genre d'économie13. 43. Il affirmait ainsi : « Lct our work-shops remain in Europe [...] The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these... | |
 | Paola Boi - 2003 - 288 pagine
...continued, "let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff [...]. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (Watson 46). The proliferation of such sores on the body politic by the introduction of commerce and... | |
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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. 
