 | Claude Gernade Bowers - Democracy - 1925 - 596 pages
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' ^Tien Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - Democracy - 1925 - 580 pages
...with 'malignant sarcasm.' When Jefferson, referring to the tillers of the soil, wrote that they were 'the chosen people of God if ever He had a chosen people,' and referred to Christ as 'good if ever man was,' the minister charged him with 'profane babbling.'... | |
 | Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck - African Americans - 1926 - 160 pages
...was the chosen vocation of the population of the State. In 1787 Jefferson writes: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. * * * Let us never... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - City and town life - 1927 - 710 pages
...nominal farmer, in the earlier days of his career. The people engaged in agriculture he declared to be "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people" ; and, no doubt influenced by the jfhysiocratic views of the French philosophers, he expressed the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - Land use - 1938 - 1000 pages
...made it impossible for the small farmer to enjoy many of the operating advanChosen 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... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - Foreign Language Study - 2010 - 198 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... | |
 | Winfried Fluck, Welf Werner - Democracy - 2003 - 314 pages
...ihr durch die Disziplin der harten Arbeit civic virtue gleichsam garantiert ist: »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.«5 Durch den Wandel... | |
 | Carolyn Johnsen - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 208 pages
...affair with the family farm has deep roots. Thomas Jefferson, a farmer himself, 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."" Big companies... | |
 | Dale McConkey, Peter Augustine Lawler - Political Science - 2003 - 260 pages
...Thomas Jefferson, in The Life andSelected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 84-85. 58. Eg, "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 of... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 pages
...contrary model for civil society and another use of the land in the famous words: 1 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... | |
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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. 
