 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...improvement, or that one-half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft age or nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Conduct of life - 1900 - 1082 pages
...protection of our courts. — To JAMES MONROE. iv, 200. FORD ED., vii. 172. (M., 1797.) See LETTERS. heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. — NOTES ON VIRGINIA, viii, 405.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 542 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." And because manufacturing called for condensed population and seemingly more or less dependence for... | |
 | James Andrew Everitt - Agriculture - 1907 - 328 pages
...focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fife, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." And writing to John Jay, in 1785, Jefferson said : "Cultivators... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 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." And because manufacturing called for condensed population and seemingly more or less dependence for... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 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...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - American loyalists - 1913 - 422 pages
...he keeps alive that sacred flre, 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... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1915 - 518 pages
...in the mass of cultivatorsjg a phenomenon of which no age nor natiojL-ha?Turnished an examplelff jit is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, but to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - Political parties - 1917 - 170 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... | |
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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. 
