 | Carl J. Richard - History - 2004 - 396 pages
...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 - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...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 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...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 - Political Science - 2004 - 192 pages
...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 - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...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 - Social Science - 2005 - 376 pages
...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 - Country life - 2005 - 390 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...— 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 - Political Science - 2005 - 444 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... | |
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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. 
