 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 lapas
..."Remarks on the Southern Religion,"175. 19. Davidson, "A Mirror for Artists," 60. Jeffersonian Dreams Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson Note on the State of Virginia The Union is saved. Lee has surrendered forever.... | |
 | Douglass Adair - 2000 - 230 lapas
...constant and universal principles of human nature — David Hume Thomas Jefferson's statement that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.. .whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue" sets up a doctrine... | |
 | Christopher Phillips - 2000 - 360 lapas
...where these "labor[ers] in the earth," as their champion had written, would claim their divine right as the "chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people." Kentuckian John Breckinridge noted as early as 1797 that it appeared to him that "the poorer Class... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 lapas
...labor in the earth. "Our work shops [would] remain in Europe." As he attests in a famous statement, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Republican government requires a... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 lapas
...the yeoman farmer whose sense of real morality was more trustworthy than the professional moralist: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has... | |
 | Richard S. Tedlow - 2009 - 542 lapas
...as farmers. In the 1990 census, 3 percent did.10 America's heart was on the farm. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people . . . ," Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia. ' ' Unfortunately, America's heart was... | |
 | Bill Lambrecht - 2001 - 426 lapas
...between people and the land that has been revered since this nation began. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." When Harry S Truman left his family farm in Grandview, Missouri, for Washington, his mother praised... | |
 | Francis Graham Wilson, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek - 282 lapas
...belief in the agrarian mode of life as contrasted with the kind of urban life he witnessed in Europe. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God; let our workshops remain in Europe. The argument must center, however, on later statements. In the... | |
 | Bill Lambrecht - 2002 - 408 lapas
...between people and the land that has been revered since this nation began. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." When Harry S Truman left his family farm in Grandview, Missouri, for Washington, his mother praised... | |
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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. 
