 | Lance Banning - 2004 - 116 strani
...ability to dress ideas in highly gifted prose, had put the argument in moving language: 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. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 strani
...true basis of republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of Virginia, "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." To preserve liberty, Jefferson argued,... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 strani
...Virginia, Jefferson glorifted agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Gcorgics: "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 genuine and substantial virtue. . . . The mobs of great cities add... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 strani
...agricultural nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "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. . . . Corruption of morals in the... | |
 | Kyle Longley - 2004 - 382 strani
...independent-minded, democratic, and egalitarian American yeoman farmer. In 1787, he had written that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." He distrusted city dwellers and their perceived greed and speculation, and he feared people such as... | |
 | Rebecca Kneale Gould - 2005 - 390 strani
...Brothers, 1 945), 275-6. 82. Thomas Jefferson's words almost two hundred years earlier: "Those who labour 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." Jefferson, Notes on the State of... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 strani
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other?" His answer: "Those who labour 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." Food, in short, became one obvious... | |
 | David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers - 2010 - 442 strani
...the moral virtues of agrarian laborers in Query 19 dealing with Virginian "Manufactures": Those who labour 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... | |
 | Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 312 strani
...full awareness of the contingencies of life, the fulfillment of the Jeffersonian ideal that "Those who labour 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." In practice, this re-creation of... | |
 | 2004 - 516 strani
...— Srr Thomas Browne My honor is dearer to me than my life. — Miguel de Cervantes 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. — Thomas Jefferson The gent who... | |
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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. 
