 | William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - Literature - 1839 - 438 pages
...labor in the earth his peculiar deposit for substantial virtues ; the focus in which he keeps alive the sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth ; that corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 148 pages
...samples of that frugal and virtuous class who labor in the earth; of whom Jefferson well said "They are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and genuine virtues." By James Harlow, of... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1865 - 860 pages
...any state to that of its farmers, is the proportion of its unsound to the healthy parts." porruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is a work set on others than those who look up to Heaven for... | |
 | Agriculture - 1844 - 574 pages
...wantonly provoked. Jefferson, in speaking of an agricultural community observes, " Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he made his pecular deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...the ground. The moral influence in either case, is very much the same. Mr. Jefferson asserted that " corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished any example ;" and probably very few persons have either lived among flowers... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 514 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those that labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and generous virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those that labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and generous virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Samuel Prescott Hildreth - Indians of North America - 1848 - 578 pages
...Jefferson, declares: "Those who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God— if he has chosen a people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit...genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alivo that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 604 pages
...world does not admit that God had a chosen people, and therefore the proposition that " those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," is, upon this construction, no assertion at all that the cultivators of the soil are his people, because... | |
 | Nahum Capen - United States - 1852 - 594 pages
...been hallowed by the great and the good of all ages. " Those who labor in the earth," said Jefferson, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he had made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." The habits, tastes and sentiments... | |
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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. 
