 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1925 - 596 pagina’s
...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 - 1925 - 580 pagina’s
...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 - 1926 - 160 pagina’s
...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 - 1927 - 710 pagina’s
...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 - 1938 - 1000 pagina’s
...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 - 2010 - 198 pagina’s
...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 - 2003 - 314 pagina’s
...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 - 2003 - 208 pagina’s
...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 - 2003 - 260 pagina’s
...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 - 2003 - 376 pagina’s
...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. 
