 | Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 304 σελίδες
...contingencies of life, the fulfillment of the Jeffersonian ideal that "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." In practice, this re-creation of an agrarian past was never achieved, even its ideal being in time... | |
 | James E. McWilliams, James A. Mcwilliams - 2005 - 386 σελίδες
...pastoral ideal have become America's secular scriptures. "Those who labour in the earth," he wrote, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." England had succumbed to degenerate behavior as its citizens turned toward manufacturing, but America... | |
 | Rebecca Kneale Gould - 2005 - 380 σελίδες
...275-6. 82. Thomas Jefferson's words almost two hundred years earlier: "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." Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1 787), ed. William Peden (New York: WW Norton, 1 972 ),... | |
 | Wendy Toliver - 2004 - 511 σελίδες
...Browne My honor is dearer to me than my life. — Miguel de Cervantes 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 The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson... | |
 | Erik J. Olsen - 2006 - 325 σελίδες
...stakeholders. It would indeed seem more than a little ridiculous to hear these stakeholders described as "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Nor would we expect it to be said that "corruption of morals" in stakeholders such as Ackerman and... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 225 σελίδες
...Works of Thomas Jefferson, 8:459—61. 23 Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799, ibid., 9:18. if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 222 σελίδες
...'healthy part' of the citizenry: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his...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... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 369 σελίδες
...die Volksdemokratie mit einer bestimmten sozialen Figur zu verknüpfen: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made bis peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 246 σελίδες
...in every possible way the Jeffersonian ideal. "Those who labor in the earth," Jefferson had written, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To New Dealers, tenant... | |
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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. 
