 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 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 casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Maine State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 884 pages
...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
...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,...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 - 424 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 of which no age or na'ion has furnished an example." From this brief expose of human nature and its workings, we are... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1883 - 388 pages
...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 - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...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 phenomenon...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 574 pages
...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....soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subs;stence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...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 phenomenon...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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1898 - 548 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...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 - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...money to pay for it. — To DR. CURRIE. ii, 219. (P.. 1787.) 2888. FARMERS. Morals of.— 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 '-•asttalties and caprice of customers. — NOTES "\ VIRGINIA, viii,... | |
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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. 
