 | Peter Quante - 2004 - 268 σελίδες
...end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness. 229" "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made his peculiur deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred... | |
 | Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Colin C Williams - 2003 - 220 σελίδες
...nostalgia, we attempt to locate the noble yeomen, stewards of the earth, whom Thomas Jefferson saw as 'the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for a substantial and genuine virtue' (Shi, 1985: 77-8). Historians have... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 σελίδες
...One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm those by expectations... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 σελίδες
...nation would forever be the homeland of "those w,ho labour in the earth." They are, Jefferson said, "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In their "breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." When he expressed... | |
 | Paola Boi - 2003 - 288 σελίδες
...For as the former US President Thomas Jefferson believed, "Those who labor in the earth [... were] the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people" (Watson 46). In consequence, he further argued that the percentage of non-farming, manufacturing wage-laborers... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 σελίδες
...One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen II people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 σελίδες
...few of the Founding Fathers themselves were family farmers. "Those who labor in the earth [,] . . . the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," were not well represented among those attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Only Jacob Broom... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 σελίδες
...Manufakturen in den Vereinigten Staaten mit einer moralischen Argumentation: 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... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 σελίδες
...republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of 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." To preserve liberty, Jefferson argued, government had to be as close to the people as possible. To... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 σελίδες
...nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "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... | |
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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. 
