| R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 Seiten
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. [In contrast, urbanization and industrialization]... | |
| Yoshinobu Hakutani - 2006 - 262 Seiten
...Jefferson's notes on farmers. "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators," Jefferson maintains, "is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example" (Jefferson 165). Unlike the traditional haiku with a single image or a juxtaposition of two separate... | |
| Ben Kiernan - 2007 - 774 Seiten
...In Notes on the State of Virginia, he added that historically, farmers had proved uniquely proper: "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Jefferson instead considered corruption "the mark" of those "not looking up to heaven, to their own... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 Seiten
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, ances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof,...ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
| Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - 236 Seiten
...virtue' and that 'those who labour in the earth' were 'the chosen people of God'. Jefferson held that 'Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age no nation has furnished an example'. Jefferson thought the least of artisans. He admitted that carpenters,... | |
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