 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 σελίδες
...their To Benjamin Banneker, Philadelphia, August 30, 1791 Agriculture 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. Notes on the State of Virginia, 17*2 Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They... | |
 | David F. Prindle - 2006 - 398 σελίδες
...in a celebrated passage in a book he wrote in 1785, Notes On Virginia. 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. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 σελίδες
...equal to that challenge — and that the wage laborer probably was not. "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," Jefferson began in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 σελίδες
...even goes out of his way for the sake of a fling at them. "Those," says he, "who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." How does a Christian ear relish this "profane babbling?" In the first place, Mr. Jefferson doubts if... | |
 | Yoshinobu Hakutani - 2006 - 262 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 - 243 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 - 324 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 - 280 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... | |
 | Robin L. Einhorn - 2008 - 351 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 - 1734 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... | |
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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. 
