 | David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers - 2010 - 442 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar 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 earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar 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 earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Stefan Kaufmann - 2005 - 376 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breast he has made bis peculiar 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 earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phasnomenon of which no age... | |
 | Kenneth R. Bowling, Donald R. Kennon - 2005 - 238 Seiten
...chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." 25 Land in the West even helped those who did not immediately... | |
 | Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2006 - 208 Seiten
...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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example" (280). The agrarian model had specific implications for the government that Jefferson envisioned. The... | |
 | Richard A. Holland - 2006 - 265 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar 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 earth. THOMAS 7EFFERSON, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, QUERY xix "MANUFACTURES" B. Hall,... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar 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 earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age... | |
 | Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 249 Seiten
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar 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 earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. It is the focus in which he keeps alive 'that sacred fire, which otherwise might... 
