 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...the ground. The moral influence in either case, is very much the same. Mr. Jefferson asserted that " corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished any example ;" and probably very few persons have either lived among flowers... | |
 | Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 pages
...focus in which he keeps alive the sacred fire which, otherwise, might escape from the earth ; that corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age or nation has furnished an example ; it is the mark set on those, who, no*t looking up to Heaven, to... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...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...furnished an example. It is the mark set on those who are not looking up to heaven, to their own soil, and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistance... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Rice - Free thought - 1875 - 422 pages
...depository 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...mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." From this brief expose of human nature and its workings, we are... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 394 pages
...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. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption...mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven,- to-their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise [303] might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1898 - 548 pages
...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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. * * * Dependence begets subservience, and venality suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares for it... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to Heaven, to their... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 530 pages
...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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." And because manufacturing called for condensed population and seemingly more or less dependence for... | |
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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,... 
