 | Nahum Capen - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 Seiten
...from the Notes on Virginia, a part of it placed in capitals, thus : "Those who labor in the fields are the chosen people of God, IF EVER HE HAD A CHOSEN PEOPLE." Dr. Mason asks how Christian ears relish this "profane babbling," and he ranks it among other " affronts... | |
 | Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 Seiten
...focus in which he keeps alive the sacred fire which, otherwise, might escape from the earth ; that corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age or nation has furnished an example ; it is the mark set on those, who, no*t looking up to Heaven, to... | |
 | Stewart Pearce - 1860 - 588 Seiten
...poison or the pistol often closes the scene. Those, who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. — Jefferson. " Drive on, thou sturdy fanner, Drive cheerily o'er the field; The pleasures of a farmer's... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 Seiten
...from the Notes on Virginia, a part of it placed in capitals, thus : " Those who labor in the fields are the chosen people of God, IF EVER HE HAD A CHOSEN PEOPLE." Dr. Ma?on asks how Christian ears relish this "profane babbling," and he ranks it among other " affronts... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Rice - 1875 - 422 Seiten
...chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar depository for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus...mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." From this brief expose of human nature and its workings, we are... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 Seiten
...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 he had a chosen...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 Seiten
...side with us in such a contest (that of the slaves for their freedom). Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 Seiten
...good enough 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...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 Seiten
...good enough 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...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
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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. 
