 | Eric Arnesen - 2007 - 1734 páginas
...statement of the exalted place of the independent farmer. "Those who labour in the earth," Jefferson wrote, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." This version of the colonies and the early republic as a world of small, prosperous farms assumed that... | |
 | Robin L. Einhorn - 2008 - 351 páginas
...to country life in Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1 785) was a classic of "republican" thinking. "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." Americans... | |
 | Steven J. Keillor - 2007 - 224 páginas
...22, 27-28, 30; Thomas Jefferson, "The Philosophy Jefferson hoped for an agrarian, Unitarian republic. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," he claimed. Western small farmers were his ideal citizens, and Unitarians were to become the religious... | |
 | Patricia Strach - 2007 - 268 páginas
...agrarian lifestyle as the only means of promoting true democracy. Jefferson paints farmers as superior: "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." 10 Jefferson contrasts... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2007 - 300 páginas
...a distinctively modern twist to the old theme of the sturdy yeoman farmer. According to Jefferson, 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. . . . Corruption... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 páginas
...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day be determined, unless whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 304 páginas
...the few lines from Notes on the State of Virginia that earned him the title of agrarian philosopher: "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... | |
 | Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, John A. Marini - 2007 - 184 páginas
...Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Easier, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1:112. 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." Most of all, farmers... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 2010 - 300 páginas
...farmers bounty and their own dishonest wits. "Those who labor in the earth," wrote Jefferson in 1785, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Corruption has never been associated with "cultivators," he asserts. Then, using another biblical allusion,... | |
 | George Hovis - 2007 - 348 páginas
...deism leads him to wax rhapsodic on this latter point. "Those who labour in the earth," he maintains, "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."62 In Letters from... | |
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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. 
