 | Yoshinobu Hakutani - 2006 - 251 σελίδες
...has a passage revealing his basic attitude toward nature and humanity: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" (164—65). 8. On the origin and development of this verse form, see Keene, 109—15. 9. Senryu, as... | |
 | Michael Meckler - 2006 - 231 σελίδες
...Jefferson glorified agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Georgics: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...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... | |
 | David B. Danbom - 2006 - 301 σελίδες
...it in his Notes on the State of Virginia, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of 67 God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts...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.... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 258 σελίδες
..."Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he declares in Notes on Virginia (1787), "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" (Writings, 290). That famous statement characterizes the archetype of the yeoman farmer, which would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough - 1963 - 328 σελίδες
...the life of the yeoman farmer. Not all occupations were morally equal: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Still, as Query- XIX made clear, the cultivation... | |
 | Robin L. Einhorn - 2008 - 337 σελίδες
...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")... | |
 | Eric Arnesen - 2007 - 1561 σελίδες
...statement of the exalted place of the independent farmer. "Those who labour in the earth," Jefferson wrote, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." This version of the colonies and the early republic as a world of small, prosperous farms assumed that... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 290 σελίδες
...American interests, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments." They are "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people," keepers of "that sacred fire" of "substantial and genuine virtue" that "otherwise might escape from... | |
 | Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2006 - 200 σελίδες
...often-quoted lines seem forever ingrained in the American consciousness: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | Kevin O'Leary - 2006 - 290 σελίδες
...republican fears of moral decline: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit of substantial and genuine virtue . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon... | |
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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. 
