 | Thomas A. Spragens - 1999 - 300 strani
...virtues of an agrarian society flowed from the same preoccupation. Part of the reason he opined that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" was that he thought they possessed a firmer sense of the nature and limits of reality and possibility... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 strani
...therefore be resorted to of necessity not of choice, to support the surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman....exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the otherl [Italics added.] So far Jefferson is speaking in the voice of a scientific rationalist. In arguing... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 strani
..."Remarks on the Southern Religion," 175. 1 19. Davidson, "A Mirror for Artists," 60. Jeffersonian Dreams Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson Note on the State of Virginia The Union is saved. Lee has surrendered forever.... | |
 | Douglass Adair - 2000 - 230 strani
...constant and universal principles of human nature — David Hume Thomas Jefferson's statement that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God... whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" sets up a doctrine... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2002 - 262 strani
...be resorted to of necessity, not of choice, to support the surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman....labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine... | |
 | Francis Graham Wilson, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek - 282 strani
...belief in the agrarian mode of life as contrasted with the kind of urban life he witnessed in Europe. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God; let our workshops remain in Europe. The argument must center, however, on later statements. In the... | |
 | Bill Lambrecht - 2001 - 426 strani
...between people and the land that has been revered since this nation began. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." When Harry S Truman left his family farm in Grandview, Missouri, for Washington, his mother praised... | |
 | Adam D. Sheingate - 2003 - 300 strani
...Japanese Agriculture. core political values and national well-being.74 The Jeffersonian ideal that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" still holds sway in American political culture. During the 1980s, when farmers endured their worst... | |
 | Sylvia Whitman - 2001 - 96 strani
...Charlottesville, Virginia, where he competed with his neighbors for the earliest harvest of peas in spring. “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God,” Jefferson wrote, “whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”... | |
 | Rebecca Starr - 2000 - 304 strani
...cultivation of his estates at Mount Vernon to take up the presidency. 42 According to Jefferson, of course, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." 43 But Jefferson went further: Wherever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed... | |
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. 
