 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 2005 - 64 strani
...Mr. TALIAFERRO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "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... | |
 | Kevin O'Leary - 2006 - 308 strani
...of Virginia [1787], contains this celebrated passage filled with republican fears of moral decline: 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 of substantial and genuine... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 280 strani
...contemporaries, Jefferson thought of rural life as an ideal balance between primitive and urban conditions. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he declares in Notes on Virginia (1787), "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 strani
...Country, Federer states: "In Query XIX of his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote: 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." In his book The... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 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....manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he... | |
 | Ben Kiernan - 2007 - 774 strani
...interior as wide open for white pioneers. In Notes on the State of Virginia, he wrote: "[W]e have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman....our citizens should be employed in its improvement?" His reply was resounding: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."36 (See also... | |
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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. 
