 | Henry Clay Dean - 1869 - 562 strani
...chosen people,) whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise, might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Rice - 1875 - 424 strani
...chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar depository for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire which otherwise might escape from the face of the Earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 strani
...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 or nation has furnished an example. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue, it is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 574 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue, it is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 548 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 strani
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred...mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to Heaven, to their... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 strani
...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 of the earth. — NOTES ON VIRGINIA. viii, 405. FORD ED., iii, 268. (1782.) — FARMERS GENERAL... | |
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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. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might... 
