 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 244 sidor
...'healthy part' of the citizenry: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a 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 nor nation has... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 sidor
...die Volksdemokratie mit einer bestimmten sozialen Figur zu verknüpfen: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made bis peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 sidor
...in every possible way the Jeffersonian ideal. "Those who labor in the earth," Jefferson had written, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To New Dealers, tenant... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow - 2005 - 288 sidor
...imagine, in Jefferson words, that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God . . . whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Destutt dismissed such views as atavistic survivals of the old regime. Agrarians confused love of country... | |
 | Sylvia Whitman - 2001 - 96 sidor
...harvest of peas in spring. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," Jefferson wrote, "whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Yet Jefferson left the sweatiest chores to his slaves. He praised only white farmers for their character-building... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - 2006 - 1114 sidor
...virtues, while condemning large cities. "Those who labor in the earth," he wrote famously in 1783, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In drawing this distinction, he did not mean to dismiss the cultural and intellectual amenities of... | |
 | Louis Patsouras - 2005 - 333 sidor
...Alexander Hamilton, opposed them. Two examples: Jefferson described average farmers in his America as "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," basically associated them with "virtue."21 On the other hand, Hamilton's view of the economically average... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 sidor
...people with flawed moral characters that erode "laws and constitutions." Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. [In contrast, urbanization and industrialization]... | |
 | Richard A. Holland - 2006 - 265 sidor
...\T?iil«^rl 4Vi*i DETTMER D AY i D Äi^lecL tire Campus Requiem fox* BL Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. THOMAS 7EFFERSON, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, QUERY xix "MANUFACTURES" B. Hall, the self-styled... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 sidor
...good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
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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. 
