 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1890 - 708 pages
...parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Biography - 1892 - 374 pages
...especially a bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtre. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...Works, IX, p. 460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 pages
...of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He has a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...handicraft arts for the other? Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God. if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the foxnis in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Conduct of life - 1900 - 1082 pages
...2892. FARMERS, Virtues of.— Those «ho labor in the earth are the chosen people oi God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It iä the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face... | |
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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. 
