 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 pagine
...its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 pagine
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth.... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1892 - 374 pagine
...to its culture, especially a bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtre. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pagine
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth.... | |
 | Henry Sylvester Nash - 1897 - 328 pagine
...unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."66 All of this, barring the sceptical and sarcastic words " if ever he had a people," would... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 548 pagine
...on Virginia, he would have felt strengthened. " Those who labor in the earth," writes Jefferson, " are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 pagine
...not be great. — Works, IX, p. 460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 pagine
...government ends, the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He has a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pagine
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God. if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the foxnis in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 654 pagine
...not be great.— Works, IX, p. 460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
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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. 
