 | 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 - 427 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... | |
 | Eric Nelson - 2006 - 320 σελίδες
...farmers most famously in his Notes on the State of Virgin1a, Query XiX. "7 hose who labour 1n 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... | |
 | Richard B. Bernstein - 2004 - 251 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 - 371 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... | |
 | Lance Banning - 2004 - 97 σελίδες
...ideas in highly gifted prose, had put the argument in moving language: 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. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | George McGovern - 2004 - 192 σελίδες
...Jefferson most trusted and admired were the farmers who tilled the soil. "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," he wrote. Circling the dome of the magnificent Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin of the nation's... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 357 σελίδες
...Jefferson glorifted agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Gcorgics: "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. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure... | |
 | Kyle Longley - 2004 - 384 σελίδες
...and egalitarian American yeoman farmer. In 1787, he had written that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." He distrusted city dwellers and their perceived greed and speculation, and he feared people such as... | |
 | Harry W. Fritz - 2004 - 143 σελίδες
...was a philosopher of agrarianism. "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 . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon 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. 
