 | R. Bruce Hull - Nature - 2006 - 273 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. [In contrast, urbanization and industrialization]... | |
 | Yoshinobu Hakutani - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 262 pages
...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 - Social Science - 2007 - 774 pages
...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 - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 236 pages
...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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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,... 
