 | Howard Gillman - 1993 - 336 strani
...nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.... [G]enerally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in... | |
 | Eric Foner - 1995 - 404 strani
...in his Notes on the State of Virginia that dependence "hegets suhservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of amhition." Representative government could only rest on a citizenry enjoying the personal autonomy... | |
 | Melvin Stokes, Melvyn Stokes, Stephen Conway - 1996 - 366 strani
...in his Notes on the State of Virginia that dependence "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Representative government could rest only on a citizenry that enjoyed the personal autonomy that arose... | |
 | Karol Edward Soltan, Stephen L. Elkin - 2010 - 229 strani
...on the State of Virginia, Jefferson wrote: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition" (Jefferson [1781] cited in Macpherson 1977, 18). His hope for a new "system" in early nineteenth-century... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - 1998 - 436 strani
...wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, "Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. " Factory life breeds a "corruption of morals" not found among farmers. "While we have land to labour... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 strani
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 strani
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 strani
...it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes 13 perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally speaking, the proportion which... | |
 | Gregory S. Alexander - 2008 - 496 strani
...his Notes on the State of Virginia, stating, "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." 22 Static vs. Dynamic Property The republican image of property as the foundation of political, social,... | |
 | Rowland Berthoff - 1997 - 280 strani
...Thomas Jefferson put it in an oft-quoted letter of 1787, "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."21 The citizen who could afford independent judgment, on the other hand, could be relied... | |
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... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence... 
