 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 Seiten
...on the link between political virtue and the life of the rural republican farmer: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit of substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which... | |
 | Peter Quante - 2004 - 268 Seiten
...it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness. 229" "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made his peculiur deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred... | |
 | Mansel G. Blackford - 2003 - 238 Seiten
...economic circumstances. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," wrote Jefferson, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Jefferson observed further, "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon [sic]... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...public policy. One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm those by expectations... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...public policy. One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen II people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm... | |
 | Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Colin C Williams - 2003 - 220 Seiten
...nostalgia, we attempt to locate the noble yeomen, stewards of the earth, whom Thomas Jefferson saw as 'the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for a substantial and genuine virtue' (Shi, 1985: 77-8). Historians have... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 Seiten
...nation would forever be the homeland of "those w,ho labour in the earth." They are, Jefferson said, "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In their "breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." When he expressed... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 Seiten
...few of the Founding Fathers themselves were family farmers. "Those who labor in the earth [,] . . . the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," were not well represented among those attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Only Jacob Broom... | |
 | Paola Boi - 2003 - 288 Seiten
...For as the former US President Thomas Jefferson believed, "Those who labor in the earth [... were] the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people" (Watson 46). In consequence, he further argued that the percentage of non-farming, manufacturing wage-laborers... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 Seiten
...Ausbaus der Manufakturen in den Vereinigten Staaten mit einer moralischen Argumentation: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...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... | |
| |
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. 
