 ... 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 - Page 172by Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...Dependairce 'begets subservience and venality,, suffocates the germ of: virtue, and prepares fit toofs for the designs of ambition. This, the natural, progress and consequence of the arts, has s6W*etimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances : but, generally speaking, >he1ffro-f... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 454 pages
...depend for it on the casualities and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but, generally speaking,... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suflbcates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the whole of the other classes of citizens bears in any country to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...but, generally speaking, the proportion, which the agfregate of the other classes of citizens bears, in any tate, to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Jesse Buel - Agriculture - 1840 - 342 pages
...the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subserviency and degeneracy, suifocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus the natural consequence and progress of the arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...those who dance attendance upon ambition and wealth: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." * * We beg leave, in some degree, to exeTnptour own State from these unmeasured denunciations, .and... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...depend upon 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. This, the natural consequence and progress of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 514 pages
...depend upon 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. This, the natural consequence and progress of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 508 pages
...for the designs of ambition. This, the natural consequence and progress 'of the arts, has sometimes been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but generally speaking, the proportion which the whole of the other classes of citizens bears in any country, to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1853 - 560 pages
...depend not on the casualities and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subserviency and degeneracy, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thus, the natural consequences and progress of the arts, have sometimes, perhaps been retarded by accidental... | |
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