 ... 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
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 σελίδες
...their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence on customers "suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." In a letter, Jefferson listed additional virtues of the farming life: "The moderate and sure income... | |
 | John Hood - 2001 - 334 σελίδες
...owned by someone else come to feel dependent — and "dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."3 Certainly Jefferson's proposed solution — to sacrifice the economic advantages of commercialism... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 σελίδες
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.21 Some of these are powerful arguments. Even today, we see some evidence on their behalf.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 σελίδες
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 σελίδες
...depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. A corollary of this view that only in an agrarian society were men generally independent enough to... | |
 | Maxine N. Lurie - 2010 - 520 σελίδες
...thought which most concerns this paper. "Dependence," he wrote, "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."56 The events of the revolution, when seen through the lens of republican rhetoric, demonstrated... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 σελίδες
...monarchical empire on the American colonists generally: "Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."31 Like the opposition of slavery and freedom, the opposition of city vice and rural virtue... | |
 | William Austin Stahl - 2002 - 260 σελίδες
...independence was a prerequisite for citizenship. "Dependence," he said, "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."2 7 Today, economic independence is a remote dream for the vast majority of people. The ad... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - 2010 - 198 σελίδες
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husband men, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy-parts, and is a good-enough barometer... | |
 | Roger E. Meiners, Bruce Yandle - 2003 - 228 σελίδες
...in the mass cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . 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... | |
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