 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 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 - 208 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 - 308 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... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 σελίδες
...from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? 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. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 304 σελίδες
...State of Virginia that earned him the title of agrarian philosopher: "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." About whom was Jefferson writing? What kind of agriculture and where? Jefferson believed that open... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2007 - 300 σελίδες
...to the old theme of the sturdy yeoman farmer. According to Jefferson, 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. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | Patricia Strach - 2007 - 268 σελίδες
...means of promoting true democracy. Jefferson paints farmers as superior: "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." 10 Jefferson contrasts the virtue of rural life for promoting a democratic society with the cancer... | |
 | Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, John A. Marini - 2007 - 184 σελίδες
...Lincoln, Roy P. Easier, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1:112. labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Most of all, farmers are independent, not even "looking up to heaven" but relying on "their own soil... | |
 | George Hovis - 2007 - 348 σελίδες
...deism leads him to wax rhapsodic on this latter point. "Those who labour in the earth," he maintains, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."62 In Letters from an American Farmer (1782), J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur based his promotion... | |
 | Steven J. Keillor - 2007 - 224 σελίδες
..."The Philosophy Jefferson hoped for an agrarian, Unitarian republic. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," he claimed. Western small farmers were his ideal citizens, and Unitarians were to become the religious... | |
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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. 
