 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 strani
...arts for the other ? Those who labor in the earth are the chosen peo2. 229. pie of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...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... | |
 | Ernest Crosby - 1908 - 180 strani
...of them all, and the source of our very existence. 1 cannot but believe with Thomas Jefferson that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. There 'is much to be said, too, in favor of the Russian peasant's plan of establishing manufactories... | |
 | David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth - 1908 - 624 strani
...multitudes, where vice, evil and immoral purposes have best opportunity to thrive. Thus he said : " Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Our country, as well as others, seemingly at present inclines to move in the opposite direction —... | |
 | Edith Tunis Sale - 1909 - 416 strani
...great man, with spade in hand or measuring-line, proving the happy truth of his own proverb that " Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." So devoted was Jefferson to the country pastimes and delights of his homestead that even during his... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 266 strani
...was that of a farmer, relatively small as was the income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still, les§. .fitted for politics —... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 266 strani
...that of a farmer,' relatively small as was the income from that source His deliberate opinion was : "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still less fitted for politics — the... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 268 strani
...income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen pectple of God, if ever he had a chosen people; whose breasts...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still less fitted for politics — the... | |
 | Emma Winner Rogers - 1912 - 162 strani
...a sense, to the faith of the fathers, and to their practice, too. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." And Washington went joyfully from the presidency of the United States to the retirement of his great... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - 1913 - 422 strani
...conception of society and government to Jefferson's early surroundings and to the life of the class whose mi "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in vrhich he keeps alive that sacred flre, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption... | |
 | 1916 - 792 strani
...been liberty-loving but conservative, for his roots strike deep into the land. Thomas Jefferson said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." And again, "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens." A similar vision appeared to... | |
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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. 
