 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 Seiten
...the case, while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one other in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe." Webster's vision of America, like Jefferson's, was fundamentally agrarian: he thought of property as... | |
 | Robert L. Dorman - 2003 - 386 Seiten
...the continent": "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe," Jefferson wrote, "we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there."24 Yet while voicing genuine anxieties about a European pattern of power in the corporatized,... | |
 | Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell - 2005 - 352 Seiten
...shall by virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case as long as there remain vacant lands in any part of America....Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." Which we are doing, because of the inevitable development of Commerce and Manufacture, and the concomitant... | |
 | Martin Weidinger - 2006 - 266 Seiten
...agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remains vacant lands in any pari of America. When we get piled upon one another in...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there«. Jefferson bezog allerdings seine Vorstellungen von Partizipation kaum auf die aktive Mitbestimmung... | |
 | Edward Stringham - 2007 - 718 Seiten
...shall be virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case as long as there remain vacant lands in any part of America....Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." Which we are doing, because of the inevitable development of Commerce and Manufacture, and the concomitant... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - 1905 - 492 Seiten
...so, as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case, while there remains vacant lauds in any part of America. When we get piled upon one...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." We see here why he was an expansionist and what was the relation of his long cherished project of transcontinental... | |
 | William Moran - 2002 - 336 Seiten
..."add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. When we get piled upon one another in large cities,...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." The women in New England were not familiar with the militant strike tactics used by workers in other... | |
 | 1928 - 912 Seiten
...the most lasting bonds. . . . When we get piled up on one another as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as in Europe and go to eating one another as they do there." Even some of the statesmen who, in Jefferson's time, advocated protective tariffs to encourage manufacturing... | |
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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... 
