 | David J. Walbert - 2002 - 274 lapas
...Lancaster County, 1997. Photograph by the author. founding. From Thomas Jefferson's proclamation that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," to the agrarian republicanism of early proslavery thinkers, to the antebellum Republican hope that... | |
 | Donald H. Parkerson - 2002 - 220 lapas
...yeoman who provided the backbone of American society and democracy. For Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 lapas
...may require of 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 lapas
...may require of 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 lapas
...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... | |
 | Angela Lakwete - 2005 - 256 lapas
..."the immensity of land" in the United States should occupy "all our citizens." Indeed, he declared, "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 peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 lapas
...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... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 lapas
...1801 onwards, he failed to realize his vision of the new nation as an agrarian republic - he believed 'those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God' - deploring the growth and industrialization of its cities, and the rampant spreading of slave plantations,... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 lapas
...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... | |
 | Eric Sloane - 2003 - 130 lapas
...only a century ago. Today it has all but vanished. Like every American, Jefferson truly believed that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" and that "the farmer is the most noble and independent man in society." Whether you were a banker or... | |
| |
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. 
