 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 278 Seiten
...Works, IX, p. 4(>0. Jefferson wrote in his. "J^Qtes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows; Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - 1903 - 300 Seiten
...Virginia," Thomas Jefferson wrote : "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...Virginia," Thomas Jefferson wrote : "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fife, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 Seiten
...arts for the other ? Those who labor in the earth are the chosen peo2. 229. pie of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 266 Seiten
...farmer, relatively small as was the income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still less fitted for politics — the... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 266 Seiten
...farmer, relatively small as was the income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still, les§. .fitted for politics —... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - 1911 - 268 Seiten
...income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen pectple of God, if ever he had a chosen people; whose breasts...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." And if Jefferson was disqualified for law as a calling he was still less fitted for politics — the... | |
 | Emma Winner Rogers - 1912 - 162 Seiten
...faith of the fathers, and to their practice, too. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." And Washington went joyfully from the presidency of the United States to the retirement of his great... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - 1913 - 422 Seiten
...government to Jefferson's early surroundings and to the life of the class whose mi "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in vrhich he keeps alive that sacred flre, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1915 - 518 Seiten
...to a livelihood and yet is certain of its reward. "Those whoTaDor in the earth," exclaims Jefferson, "are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen...of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivatorsjg a phenomenon of which no age nor natiojL-ha?Turnished an examplelff jit is the mark set... | |
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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. 
