 | Dale McConkey, Peter Augustine Lawler - 2003 - 260 σελίδες
...chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue — Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark of those who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for... | |
 | Daniel A. Bell, Chae-bong Ham - 2003 - 404 σελίδες
...occupants of the work-bench," is well known. In "Notes on the State of Virginia," he observes that the "corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. 27 Diggins (1994):42-43. 28 This crucial subject receives but one brief mention of a single page of... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 σελίδες
...chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." 46 An agrarian nation would remain virtuous and would preserve its democratic traditions. In addition... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 σελίδες
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...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... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 σελίδες
...America was — for the time being at least — safe from such a fate because, as Jefferson noted, "corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." America was truly exceptional in that it could realistically wish "never ... to see our citizens occupied... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 σελίδες
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phasnomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.408 Diese Feier des Ackerbauern, seiner... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 σελίδες
...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 or nation has furnished an example." 25 Land in the West even helped those who did not immediately... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 σελίδες
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue," Jefferson began in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set upon those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for... | |
 | Kevin O'Leary - 2006 - 308 σελίδες
...chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit of substantial and genuine virtue . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...nor nation has furnished an example ... It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker... | |
 | Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2006 - 208 σελίδες
...consciousness: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example" (280). The agrarian model had specific implications for the government that Jefferson envisioned. The... | |
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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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise,... 
