 | Mansel G. Blackford - 2003 - 238 strani
...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... | |
 | Eric Sloane - 2003 - 130 strani
...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... | |
 | John Michael Vlach - 2003 - 410 strani
...Index, 389 About the CD-ROM, 399 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... | |
 | Susan Davis Lenski, Mary Ann Wham, Jerry L. Johns - 2006 - 454 strani
...gets in the way of human accomplishments. Evidence that Does Not Support Topic • Jefferson said that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. • Thoreau lived by himself for five years at Walden Pond, doing all of the manual labor. 6. Write... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 strani
...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.... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 strani
...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,... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 strani
...necessity not of choice to support the surplus of their people." In contrast, the United States had "an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman." "Is it best then," Jefferson asked, "that all our citizens should be employed in its improvement, or that one half should... | |
 | Stephen S. Light - 2004 - 356 strani
...subsidy programs. Starting in the mid- l 940"s, programs designed to save the family farm had the , that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. a chosen people whose breasts he has made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. "... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 strani
...expense of the states and the Federalist Party's anti-French proclivities. He stated his belief that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. "Jefferson was a scientist of natural history, a brilliant classical architect and a knowledgeable... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 strani
...the designs of ambition." But the larger context of this quotation is often overlooked: "We have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman....exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other?" His answer: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people,... | |
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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. 
