 | Thomas Jefferson - Philosophy - 1998 - 374 pages
...indulges in a sentimental rhapsody on the value of a life spent cultivating one's own land. "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example," he writes. "It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Warfield Simpson - Nature - 1999 - 422 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 nor nation has furnished an example."8 He believed people, power, and wealth should be decentralized and dependent on the land.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture and state - 2000 - 1128 pages
...which He keeps alive that 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 causalities and caprice of customers. These are important words to remember... | |
 | William Howard Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 368 pages
...he keeps alive the 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... | |
 | 2000 - 1136 pages
...which He keeps alive that 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 causalities and caprice of customers. These are important words to remember... | |
 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 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... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - History - 2000 - 274 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 nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their... | |
 | Thomas G. West - History - 1997 - 244 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 the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence on customers "suffocates... | |
 | John R. Wallach - Philosophy - 2010 - 484 pages
...that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruptson in morals nt the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. [Of course, advances in marketing... | |
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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. 
