 ... phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers....  Notes on the State of Virginia - Σελίδα 172των Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 280 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Henry Clay Dean - 1869 - 562 σελίδες
...for the designs of ambition. Thus, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally...which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bear, in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 σελίδες
...in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate...classes of citizens bears in any state to that of the husbandmen is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 σελίδες
...which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility ; and he who knows most knows best how... | |
 | Henry Sylvester Nash - 1897 - 328 σελίδες
...such notions have had, is suggested by the following passage from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. " Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate...classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandman is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 σελίδες
...casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality suffocates the germs of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs...classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandman, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 σελίδες
...Government. — See CABINET. 2187. DEPENDENCE, Evils of.— Dependence begets subservience and venality. suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — NOTES ON VIRGINIA, viii, 405. FORD ED., iii. 260. (1782.) 2188. DEPOBTATION ACT, Denounced. —... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 530 σελίδες
...or in fear of it, and thereby reduced to that "dependence" which "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Indeed, are not our people "piled upon one another, * * * as in Europe," and have they not as a consequence... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - 1913 - 422 σελίδες
...depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - 1917 - 170 σελίδες
...depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound... | |
 | Ohio State University - 1917 - 168 σελίδες
...depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound... | |
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