 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 страници
...einer moralischen Argumentation: 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 alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face... | |
 | Lance Banning - 2004 - 116 страници
...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 which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 страници
...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 just so much to the support of pure... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 2005 - 70 страници
...Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." I stand before you today as one of God's chosen people, humble yet full of virtue. My name is David... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 244 страници
...nation's husbandmen as constituting the 'healthy part' of the citizenry: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen...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... | |
 | Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 312 страници
...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 an agrarian past was never achieved, even its ideal being in time... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 страници
...secular scriptures. "Those who labour in the earth," he wrote, "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." England had succumbed to degenerate behavior as its citizens turned toward manufacturing, but America... | |
 | Jeffrey Myers - 2005 - 212 страници
...most free and most virtuous: 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 . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do the... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 страници
...Thomas Jefferson, 8:459—61. 23 Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799, ibid., 9:18. 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 mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | 2004 - 516 страници
...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 wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson... | |
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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. 
