 | Peter Coviello - 243 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 parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption" (Notes, 165). Nonagrarian labor... | |
 | David F. Prindle - Business & Economics - 2006 - 398 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. .... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...on Virginia, "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. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if ever he had a chosen people, whose... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 249 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 parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour then,... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - Business & Economics - 2006 - 310 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 parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labor then,... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state es in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn thro good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour then,... | |
 | David Tucker - Virginia - 2008 - 182 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 parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. Jefferson concludes, therefore,... | |
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... 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 parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. 
