 | Homer Carey Hockett - Political Science - 1917 - 172 pages
...Jefferson's early surroundings and to the life of the class whose loi "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whoso breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue....sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | American Sociological Association - Sociology - 1919 - 554 pages
...has made the peculiar deposit for substantial 1 Jefferson to Jay, 1785, Works, Ford edition, IV, 88. and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which would otherwise escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon... | |
 | Ohio State University - History - 1917 - 168 pages
...Jefferson's early surroundings and to the life of the class whose 104 "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which be keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption... | |
 | Mary Lambert Shine - 1922 - 432 pages
...political value of an agrioSLtural people. About the year 1783 he said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen...keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might eecape from (76) the face of the earth." In 1785 he wrote to Jay, "Cultivators (71) Franklin, VII,... | |
 | Clinton Wallace Gilbert - United States - 1922 - 296 pages
...Public Opinion, has to say about the divine basis for popular government: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire which might otherwise escape from the earth." That "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" was public... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - Labor - 1922 - 292 pages
...on Virginia he bids manufacturers keep away from America. "Those who r labor on the earth," he says, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he : had a chosen people, whose breasts he las made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - Monticello (Va.) - 1925 - 334 pages
...in respect. He had an equally high appreciation of "those who labour in the earth," proclaiming them "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - Democracy - 1925 - 596 pages
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' ^Tien Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - Democracy - 1925 - 580 pages
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' When Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
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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. 
