| John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 604 pages
...Scriptures. He even goes out of his way for the sake of a fling at them. " Those," says he, " 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 virtne."* How does a Christian... | |
| Nahum Capen - United States - 1852 - 594 pages
...been hallowed by the great and the good of all ages. " Those who labor in the earth," said Jefferson, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he had made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." The habits, tastes... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...from the Notes on Virginia, a part of it placed in capitals, thus : "Those who labor in the fields are the chosen people of God, IF EVER HE HAD A CHOSEN PEOPLE." Dr. Mason asks how Christian ears relish this "profane babbling," and he ranks it among other " affronts... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1868 - 758 pages
...from the Notes on Virginia, a part of it placed in capitals, thus : " Those who labor in the fields are the chosen people of God, IF EVER HE HAD A CHOSEN PEOPLE." Dr. Ma?on asks how Christian ears relish this "profane babbling," and he ranks it among other " affronts... | |
| Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...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... | |
| John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1883 - 388 pages
...especially a bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote : " 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... | |
| John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...which can take side with us in such a contest (that of the slaves for their freedom). 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... | |
| Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 474 pages
...parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . 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." This doctrine was... | |
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