 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 372 σελίδες
...the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue....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... | |
 | American Sociological Association - 1919
...has made the peculiar deposit for substantial 1 Jefferson to Jay, 1785, Works, Ford edition, IV, 88. and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which would otherwise escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon... | |
 | Ohio State University - 1917
...Jefferson's early surroundings and to the life of the class whose 104 "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which be keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption... | |
 | Mary Lambert Shine - 1922 - 390 σελίδες
...political value of an agrioSLtural people. About the year 1783 he said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might eecape from (76) the face of the earth." In 1785 he wrote to Jay, "Cultivators (71) Franklin, VII,... | |
 | Clinton Wallace Gilbert - 1922 - 236 σελίδες
...Public Opinion, has to say about the divine basis for popular government: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire which might otherwise escape from the earth." That "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" was public... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 531 σελίδες
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' ^Tien Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 531 σελίδες
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' When Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1938
...impossible for the small farmer to enjoy many of the operating advanChosen 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. — THOMAS JEFFERSON tages of his larger competitor. This problem is being met through the cooperative... | |
 | R. Daniel Monroe - 2003 - 264 σελίδες
...\\isNotesontheStateofVirginia, Jefferson suggests farmers were divinely blest: "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." Those employed in manufacturing or commerce were vulnerable to market fluctuations and customer caprice... | |
 | Richard A. Levins - 2003 - 96 σελίδες
...To Jefferson, farmers as a group were "first in utility and ought to be first in respect"; they were "the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Jefferson feared a tyranny not of kings but of the heavy and unrestricted hand of powerful industrialists.... | |
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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. 
