 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890
...good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . 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." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894
...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...which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1892 - 353 σελίδες
...bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtre. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894
...that to ex,; ercise 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...which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 112 σελίδες
...are his who can take them. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He has a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898
...460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 476 σελίδες
...handicraft arts for the other? 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...sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1009 σελίδες
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God. if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the foxnis in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1009 σελίδες
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those «ho labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It iä the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 255 σελίδες
...460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
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