 | Paul Wilstach - 1925 - 334 strani
...in respect. He had an equally high appreciation of "those who labour in the earth," proclaiming them "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 580 strani
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' When Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 596 strani
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' ^Tien Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1925 - 87 strani
...liberté sont pour lui des termes synonymes. Voir en particulier Notes on Virginia, ME, II, aag : « Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. » — Une seule fois, à ma connaissance, il a paru se faire l'écho de Montesquieu, qui va beaucoup... | |
 | Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck - 1926 - 160 strani
...wharf. 32 Agriculture was the chosen vocation of the population of the State. In 1787 Jefferson writes: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. * * * Let us never wish to see our citizens... | |
 | 1926 - 720 strani
...exists in all nations and at all times. Thomas Jefferson put it in words in a letter he wrote in 1781: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. . . . The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 strani
...nominal farmer, in the earlier days of his career. The people engaged in agriculture he declared to be "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people" ; and, no doubt influenced by the jfhysiocratic views of the French philosophers, he expressed the... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1927 - 816 strani
...for occupation and livelihood. He did it with no unwillingness. Long before this he had declared that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," and he still believed it. He had always been interested in agriculture and he was convinced that by... | |
 | Richard A. Levins - 2003 - 112 strani
...To Jefferson, farmers as a group were "first in utility and ought to be first in respect"; they were "the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Jefferson feared a tyranny not of kings but of the heavy and unrestricted hand of powerful industrialists.... | |
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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. 
