 | Donald Davidson - 1938 - 394 Seiten
...government . . . They [the people] are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty . . . This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. In these sentences the basic theme of American history is set forth in epitome, and in such form as... | |
 | Jorge Reina Schement, Terry Curtis - 1995 - 302 Seiten
...parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." To Madison, 1787, "When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do." To de Meunier, 1786, "An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of things... | |
 | 550 Seiten
...while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled together upon one another hi large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. And again: Before the establishment of the American states, nothing was known to history but the men... | |
 | Hal Niedzviecki - 1999 - 172 Seiten
...spits in the muck] I learned it. Father wanted me to learn it. Jefferson said: 'We shall become as corrupt as in Europe and go to eating one another as they do there.' That is it. You see? Eating one another. So there is nothing else, just a bunch of pigs, that is all.... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - 2000 - 634 Seiten
...western lands were exhausted, he wrote, Americans would "get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there."10 The surveyors headed west in late 1785 as soon as the Iroquois and the Ohio Indians ceded... | |
 | John Hood - 2001 - 334 Seiten
...virtuous ... as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled...in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.2 Jefferson argued that farming led to virtue and to support for limited government "by the most... | |
 | J. Ellen Gainor - 1999 - 260 Seiten
...conjured more specters of savagery and devourment. As Thomas Jefferson had warned: "When we get piled up upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there" (qtd. in Muccigrosso 122). For many white, middle-class men, urban women contributed to the threat.... | |
 | Edward J. Dodson - 2002 - 600 Seiten
...for paltry money wages. "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe? he wrote, "we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there"1•* Already, in the republic's coastal cities there was great poverty and social unrest. Immigration... | |
 | James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf - 2002 - 542 Seiten
...proven too true: "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. . . . [The people] will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money."1'11 The Native... | |
 | Tim Moore - 2002 - 388 Seiten
...surprisingly summed up what he had learnt in Paris and Italy by expressing the fear that 'we shall become as corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there'. Back at Tara, the Tarleton boys, learning that another college expulsion will lead to parental forfeiture... | |
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This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous ; and I think we shall be so, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another... 
