 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 in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might...  Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President - Página 6por Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 516 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | John R. Wallach - 2010 - 484 páginas
...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 in...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruptson in morals nt the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished... | |
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 páginas
...chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit of genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps...otherwise might escape from the face of the earth." His fear of commerce and city life is expressed in the same paragraph: "The mobs of great cities add... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 páginas
...chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does... | |
 | Susan Hoffmann - 2001 - 338 páginas
...chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Conversely, he was clear that people who are not farmers are not virtuous: "generally speaking, the... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 páginas
...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...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."45 After the procession of two Virginia patricians and a Boston Brahmin, the idea struck a... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2001 - 268 páginas
...ornamental farm, was the proper labor of "the chosen people of God" — "the focus in which he [the farmer] keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth."41 The ferme ornee later became a favorite and central feature of his plans for Monticello's... | |
 | Craig S. Campbell - 2004 - 472 páginas
...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 in...which no age nor nation has furnished an example" (157). In further support of agrarian values, Jefferson blamed the corruption in any society on industry... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 páginas
...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 in...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their subsistence, depend for it on the... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 páginas
...people of God, if ever he hac a chosen people, whose breasts he has his peculiar deposit for substantia and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.14 In his Notes, Jefferson at times... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 páginas
...God, . . . whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes bears in any State... | |
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