 | Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2006 - 208 strani
...ancestors saw no worth in a society in which "dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Mrs. Grier's answer, according to Bradford an answer that is a reflection of the lives of the yeoman... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 strani
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . [Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 strani
...Weightman, Monticello, June 24, 1826 Dependence Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 Difficulties Calamity was our best physician. To Richard Price,... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 strani
...[In contrast, urbanization and industrialization] . . . begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength... | |
 | Richard A. Holland - 2006 - 265 strani
...best remain a nation of independent farmers: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. [. . .] While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench,... | |
 | Walter F. Murphy - 2007 - 588 strani
...government" required some economic autonomy: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ... It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour."59 The system probably... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 strani
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dépendance begets subservience and venality, suffocates whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government: Provided, aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | George Hovis - 2007 - 348 strani
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."61 This passage makes clear Jefferson's celebration of the yeoman's self-sufficiency, lack... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 182 strani
...on the causalities and caprice of customers. Dependence 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... | |
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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... 
