 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 страници
...erode "laws and constitutions." 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... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 249 страници
...Note on the State of Virginia: 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... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 страници
...wage laborer probably was not. "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 began in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 страници
...fling at them. "Those," says he, "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." How does a Christian ear relish this "profane babbling?" In the first place, Mr. Jefferson doubts if... | |
 | Richard A. Holland - 2006 - 265 страници
...tire Campus Requiem fox* BL 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... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 страници
...its degree of corruption. . . . 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." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | David B. Danbom - 2006 - 328 страници
...on the State of Virginia, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of o 7 God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."1 Agrarians argued that farmers were superior in part because of the legitimacy of their occupation.... | |
 | Robin L. Einhorn - 2008 - 351 страници
...classic of "republican" thinking. "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." Americans should concentrate on agriculture rather than industry ("let our workshops remain in Europe")... | |
 | Michael Meckler - 2006 - 243 страници
...reminiscent of the Georgics: "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. ... It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 304 страници
...title of agrarian philosopher: "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... | |
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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. 
