 | Lewis Perry - History - 1989 - 479 pages
...and an abiding loyalty to their land. In Jefferson's opinion, this was true in all times and places: "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." This opinion helped to differentiate the American Revolution from the terrors Jefferson saw and deplored... | |
 | George Spindler, Louise S. Spindler - Education - 1990 - 206 pages
...chosen people, whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. He argues that we should leave our workshops in Europe and that it is better to carry provisions and... | |
 | Mark Sagoff - Law - 1990 - 286 pages
...people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." He went on: "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."24 Of this sentiment, one historian, Leo Marx, has written, "By 1785, when Jefferson issued... | |
 | Edwards - Technology & Engineering - 1990 - 718 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. The poet and philosopher Emerson expressed a similar belief. Some... | |
 | Peter De Vos - Nature - 1991 - 412 pages
...other? Those who labour 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. . . . Let our work-shops remain in Europe. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1991 - 283 pages
...in his habits, and in his happiness." By contrast, as his Notes on the State of Virginia explained, "corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." As for the individual, so for the body politic. "The proportion which the aggregate of the other classes... | |
 | William S. Dietrich - Political Science - 1991 - 360 pages
...who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," he declared. "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."12 Through one quality above all others, the American farmer appealed to Jefferson as the... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 500 pages
...wrote Jefferson in a much-quoted comment: "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 had furnished an example." People in towns depended "for their... | |
 | Donald Worster - History - 1994 - 268 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 phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set upon those, who... | |
 | Timothy Beatley - Architecture - 1994 - 332 pages
...citizenry. As Jefferson observes in an oft-quoted excerpt from his 1787 Notes on the State of Virginia: Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is a mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman,... | |
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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,... 
