 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...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...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | Alexander Trotter - Business & Economics - 1839 - 478 pages
...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...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - Literature - 1839 - 438 pages
...keeps alive the sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of 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 not looking up to heaven, to... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...in a mass of cultivators, is a phenomena of which no age or nation, has furnished an example. " This is the mark set on those, who not looking up to Heaven, for its blessing on their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, depend for it on the casualties... | |
 | Agriculture - 1844 - 574 pages
...he keeps alive that sacred fire which might otherwise escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." A union, therefore, of such people need not fear any combination.... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 514 pages
...from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of the cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set...soil and industry (as does the husbandman), for their subsistence, depend upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 508 pages
...from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of the cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set...soil and industry (as does the husbandman), for their subsistence, depend upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Samuel Prescott Hildreth - Indians of North America - 1848 - 590 pages
...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...looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as do the husbandmen for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers.... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1848 - 854 pages
...That, corruption" in tire mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation- has famished an example; it is the mark set on those, who not looking...their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, depend for it on the casualities and caprices of customers, and that the proportion which the aggregate... | |
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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. 
