 | Mansel G. Blackford - 2003 - 238 pagine
...and again in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite vastly changed economic circumstances. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," wrote Jefferson, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 pagine
...1801 onwards, he failed to realize his vision of the new nation as an agrarian republic - he believed 'those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God' - deploring the growth and industrialization of its cities, and the rampant spreading of slave plantations,... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 pagine
...was not reducible to land enough and people enough. For Jefferson, panegyrist to farmers everywhere ("Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God"), the imperial nation was to be secured by a people united in their shared commitment to republican principles.... | |
 | John Michael Vlach - 2003 - 410 pagine
...About the CD-ROM, 399 fc\j I m * BARNS ACROSS AMERICA THE BARN IN AMERICAN HISTORY Writing in 1787 that "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," Thomas Jefferson promoted the virtues of a country devoted to agriculture hoping that the United States... | |
 | Eric Sloane - 2003 - 130 pagine
...only a century ago. Today it has all but vanished. Like every American, Jefferson truly believed that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" and that "the farmer is the most noble and independent man in society." Whether you were a banker or... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 pagine
...nation would forever be the homeland of "those w,ho labour in the earth." They are, Jefferson said, "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In their "breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." When he expressed... | |
 | P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 268 pagine
...caught in a moment of rare idiocy arguing against the industrialization of the United States, said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God . . . whose breasts He has made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This, by the... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 pagine
...Ausbaus der Manufakturen in den Vereinigten Staaten mit einer moralischen Argumentation: 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 might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 pagine
...contended, was the true basis of republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of Virginia, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To preserve liberty, Jefferson argued, government had to be as close to the people as possible. To... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 pagine
...States remain an agricultural nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
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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. 
