 | Freeman House - 2000 - 252 Seiten
...are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is...sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth." 7 Both Locke's and Jefferson's thinking was in part inspired bv the "emptiness" of the North... | |
 | 2000 - 1136 Seiten
...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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the Earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2000 - 1128 Seiten
...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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the Earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 Seiten
...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. It is the focus in which he keeps alive the sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the... | |
 | John R. Wallach - 2010 - 484 Seiten
...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. It is...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruptson in morals nt the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 2009 - 566 Seiten
...the 1784 Notes on Virginia, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth." Farmers were "the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous" of men, and were certain... | |
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 Seiten
...chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit of genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth." His fear of commerce and city life is expressed in the same paragraph: "The mobs of great cities add... | |
 | Susan Hoffmann - 2001 - 338 Seiten
...chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Conversely, he was clear that people who are not farmers are not virtuous: "generally speaking, the... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...moralist: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."45 After the procession of two Virginia patricians and a Boston Brahmin, the idea struck a... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2001 - 268 Seiten
...ornamental farm, was the proper labor of "the chosen people of God" — "the focus in which he [the farmer] keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth."41 The ferme ornee later became a favorite and central feature of his plans for Monticello's... | |
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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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise,... 
