 | Matthew McCormack - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...Thomas Jefferson praised his nation's husbandmen as constituting the 'healthy part' of the citizenry: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow - History - 2005 - 288 pages
...to hold forth on "the dignity and utility of agriculture" and thus to imagine, in Jefferson words, that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God . . . whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Destutt dismissed... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - Federal government - 2005 - 238 pages
...agrarian life encouraged and sustained personal virtue. In Notes on the State of Virginia he wrote that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, 22 Ford, Works of Thomas Jefferson, 8:459—61. 23 Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799, ibid.,... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - History - 2005 - 271 pages
...in every possible way the Jeffersonian ideal. "Those who labor in the earth," Jefferson had written, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." To New Dealers,... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...virtues, while condemning large cities. "Those who labor in the earth," he wrote famously in 1783, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In drawing this distinction, he did not mean to dismiss the cultural and intellectual amenities of... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - Cooking - 2005 - 414 pages
...quotations in the paragraph) St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 35, 48-49, 52. 306 "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God" (and the rest of the quotations in the paragraph) Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 164-165.... | |
 | Erik J. Olsen - Political Science - 2006 - 340 pages
...stakeholders. It would indeed seem more than a little ridiculous to hear these stakeholders described as "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." Nor would we expect... | |
 | Louis Patsouras - Communism - 2005 - 333 pages
...Alexander Hamilton, opposed them. Two examples: Jefferson described average farmers in his America as "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," basically associated them with "virtue."21 On the other hand, Hamilton's view of the economically average... | |
 | Yoshinobu Hakutani - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 262 pages
...the State of Virginia (1785) has a passage revealing his basic attitude toward nature and humanity: "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" (164—65). 8. On... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - Nature - 2006 - 273 pages
...the body politic, producing people with flawed moral characters that erode "laws and constitutions." 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... | |
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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. 
