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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. "
First Ripe Fruits: Being a Collection of Tracts; to which are Added, Two ... - Page 272
by John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - 1803 - 304 pages
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Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship

Michael D. Chan - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 236 pages
...views on political economy in the following famous passage from his Note on the State of Virginia: 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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Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement

Clayton Sinyai - Business & Economics - 2006 - 310 pages
...that the yeoman farmer was equal to that challenge — and that the wage laborer probably was not. "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 began...
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The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Richard A. Holland - History - 2006 - 265 pages
...law school." 1O4 Poor Boys \T?iil«^rl 4Vi*i DETTMER D AY i D Äi^lecL tire Campus Requiem fox* BL 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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Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to ...

Michael Meckler - Civilization, Classical - 2006 - 243 pages
...Virginia, Jefferson glorified agriculture in a manner reminiscent of the Georgics: "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. ... It is the manners...
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The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages From The "History"

Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 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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Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Verson of ..., Volume 1

Chris Rodda - History - 2006 - 534 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 virtue." How does a Christian...
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Citizen Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 148 pages
...condition both of their To Benjamin Banneker, Philadelphia, August 30, 1791 Agriculture 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. Notes on the State...
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The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought

David F. Prindle - Business & Economics - 2006 - 398 pages
...his idea was in a celebrated passage in a book he wrote in 1785, Notes On 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. . . . Corruption...
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Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in ...

Mary Weaks-Baxter - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 208 pages
...Jefferson's often-quoted lines seem forever ingrained in the American consciousness: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has...
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Self-Government, the American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War

Will Morrisey - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 294 pages
...American interests, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments." They are "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people," keepers of "that sacred fire" of "substantial and genuine virtue" that "otherwise might escape from...
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