 | 1925 - 734 lapas
...noise resembling the fluttering of wings. 302. NAPOLEON BREAKS THOMAS JEFFERSON BY WILLIAM E. DODD "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." THOMAS JEFFBRSON, Works (PL Ford) IV, 85. В RUSK and buoyant John Adams cheerfully took upon his shoulders... | |
 | William Least Heat Moon - 1999 - 644 lapas
...descendants in a result quite the opposite from what Jefferson had in mind when he wrote (for example): Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue. When I was in my... | |
 | Pamela Regis - 1999 - 212 lapas
...the bulk of critics' attention.7 Concentration on the statement of the agrarian ideal in Query XIX ("Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people") and on the descriptions of the Blue Ridge Gap (Query IV) and the Natural Bridge (Query V) constitutes... | |
 | Stephanie L. Sarver - 1999 - 238 lapas
...moment when he declares that farmers are central to a sound democracy. He wrote: "Those who lahour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose hreasts he has made his peculiar deposit for suhstantial and genuine virtue" ("Notes" 29o). Jefferson... | |
 | Francis D. Cogliano - 2000 - 290 lapas
...from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft atrs for the orher? Those who labor in the eatth ate the Chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made His peculiat deposit tor subsrantial and genuine vittue. It is the focus in which... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - 1999 - 300 lapas
...virtues of an agrarian society flowed from the same preoccupation. Part of the reason he opined that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" was that he thought they possessed a firmer sense of the nature and limits of reality and possibility... | |
 | Freeman House - 2000 - 252 lapas
...of virtue, at least as it might be assumed by independent landowners dispersed across the landscape: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which... | |
 | K. Edward Lay - 2000 - 410 lapas
...agreed with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in his \otes on tht .S'w1c of i 'trginiu that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Jefferson went on to extol the virtues of husbandry (and the virtuousness of the husbandman) and proclaim,... | |
 | Gary Comstock - 2000 - 336 lapas
...overall quality of life for residents declined. In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people."53 In 1832, Andrew Jackson suggested that "The wealth and strength of a country are its population,... | |
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