 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 strani
...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 strani
...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 - 498 strani
...husbandman. Is it best then that all our citizens should be employed in its improvement, or that one-half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 strani
...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 strani
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 strani
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those «ho labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It iä the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - 1903 - 300 strani
...Virginia," Thomas Jefferson 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...sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - 1907 - 328 strani
...Virginia," Thomas Jefferson 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...It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fife, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - 1903 - 300 strani
...is peculiarly the weapon of the American farmer. In his "Notes on Virginia," Thomas Jefferson 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... | |
 | Lincoln (Mass.) - 1905 - 342 strani
...about his fields and his crops, his clover, and wheat, and flowers, and his holding to the view " that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." There is a charm and a helpfulness about a life closer to nature, and amidst her great movements, which... | |
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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. 
