 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 страница
...Virginia, Jefferson glorifted agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Gcorgics: "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 genuine and substantial virtue. . . . The mobs of... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 страница
...agricultural nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "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. . . . Corruption... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 страница
...true basis of republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of Virginia, "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." To preserve liberty,... | |
 | George McGovern - 2004 - 192 страница
...Americans Jefferson most trusted and admired were the farmers who tilled the soil. "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," he wrote. Circling... | |
 | Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 312 страница
...men lived in full awareness of the contingencies of life, the fulfillment of the Jeffersonian ideal that "Those who labour 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." In practice, this... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 страница
...spezifische Tätigkeit zu binden, die Volksdemokratie mit einer bestimmten sozialen Figur zu verknüpfen: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made bis peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in... | |
 | Rebecca Kneale Gould - 2005 - 390 страница
...York: Harper Brothers, 1 945), 275-6. 82. Thomas Jefferson's words almost two hundred years earlier: "Those who labour 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." Jefferson, Notes... | |
 | Jeffrey Myers - 2005 - 212 страница
...expressing his belief that an agrarian society is the most free and most virtuous: 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 . . . The mobs of... | |
 | 2004 - 516 страница
...— Srr Thomas Browne My honor is dearer to me than my life. — Miguel de Cervantes 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. — Thomas Jefferson... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 страница
...be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? 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. It is the focus... | |
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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. 
