 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - American literature - 1890 - 708 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? 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. It is the focus... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...half should be called off from that to ex,; ercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? 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. It is the focus... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...Works, IX, p. 460. Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1898 - 548 pages
...on Virginia, he would have felt strengthened. " Those who labor in the earth," writes Jefferson, " 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... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 pages
...of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He has a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 278 pages
...Works, IX, p. 4(>0. Jefferson wrote in his. "J^Qtes on Virginia," in 1781, as follows; Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at bench work,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 542 pages
...people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of husbandmen. * * * Those who labor 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... | |
 | William Edward Dodd - Southern States - 1911 - 266 pages
...farmer, relatively small as was the income from that source His deliberate opinion was: "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." And if Jefferson... | |
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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. 
