| Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1853 - 560 pages
...proportion which other citijens bear in the State to that of husbandmen, is the proportion of its VDsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degiee of corruption." 342 raw material and subsistance for one, and commodities for exchange and barter... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its...measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its...measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work406 beach, or twirling a distaff.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy {arts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land... | |
| John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 664 pages
...ambition ; observing, that the proportion which the manufacturers bear to (he other classes of a country, is a good enough barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption ; and he exhorts, that " our workshops should remain in Europe." In this Report, he recommends duties... | |
| Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 pages
...caprice of customers; and that the proportion which the aggregate of other citizens bear, in any State, to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts." Finally, this association has been formed to ameliorate the condition of the laborer, and multiply... | |
| John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 630 pages
...ambition ; observing, that the proportion which the manufacturers bear to the other classes of a country, is a good enough barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption ; and he exhorts, that " our workshops should remain in Europe." In this Report, he recommends duties... | |
| John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 632 pages
...ambition ; observing, that the proportion which the manufacturers bear to the other classes of a country, is a good enough barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption; and he exhorts, that " our workshops should remain in Europe." In this Report, he recommends duties... | |
| Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion, which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bear, in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its...measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff;... | |
| Science - 1893 - 902 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen is the proportion of its...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." Popular feeling almost everywhere seems to view with something of Jefferson's apprehension that change... | |
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