 | Thomas Jefferson - Philosophy - 1998 - 374 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...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 D. Cogliano - History - 2000 - 290 pages
...he keeps alive that sacred fire which might orherwise escape from the face of the eatth. Cortuprion of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. ... While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench,... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - History - 2000 - 274 pages
...has made his peculiar deposit of 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. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their... | |
 | Susan Hoffmann - Business & Economics - 2001 - 338 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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Conversely, he was clear that people who are not farmers are not virtuous: "generally speaking, the... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...moralist: "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...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."45 After the procession of two Virginia patricians and a Boston Brahmin, the idea struck a... | |
 | Craig S. Campbell - Architecture - 2004 - 472 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" (157). In further support of agrarian values, Jefferson blamed the corruption in any society on industry... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...God, . . . whose breasts He has 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. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes bears in any State... | |
 | Elaine K. Swift - History - 2002 - 262 pages
...He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue," Jefferson had long insisted. "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."46 The good society, Jefferson and his partisans believed, would overwhelmingly, if not exclusively,... | |
 | James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - History - 2002 - 562 pages
...deposit for substantia 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.14 In his Notes, Jefferson at times... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...deposit of 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. This was not merely a matter of rural sentimentality. In the 1790s, the United States was still overwhelmingly... | |
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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,... 
