| Clinton Wallace Gilbert - 1922 - 298 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...focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire which might otherwise escape from the earth." That "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" was public... | |
| Kingsley Martin - 1924 - 268 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...which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth."1 But since practice demanded it, the assumption was made that this sacred fire existed among... | |
| Paul Wilstach - 1925 - 334 Seiten
...substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators of the earth is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Such was his favourite text. He repeated it with varying changes, as when he wrote John Jay: "Cultivators... | |
| Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 450 Seiten
...the chosen rtfppl* "f HnA,. if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenonj>f wJucuJio_age_ nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
| Timothy Beatley - 1994 - 332 Seiten
...citizenry. As Jefferson observes in an oft-quoted excerpt from his 1787 Notes on the State of Virginia: Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is a mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 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...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... | |
| Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 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...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 Gillman - 1993 - 336 Seiten
...surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit... | |
| Ralph Dietl - 1996 - 500 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...of which no age nor nation has furnished an example [...]. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as scores do to... | |
| Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - 1997 - 300 Seiten
...are the chosen people of GcxJ, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is...mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to... | |
| |