 | Michael Novak - Business & Economics - 2001 - 378 pages
...introduce rot into the body politic.22 For Jefferson, the corruption of morals that arises from commerce is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven,...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience... | |
 | Susan Hoffmann - Business & Economics - 2001 - 338 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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Conversely, he was clear that people who are not farmers are not virtuous: "generally speaking, the... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."45 After the procession of two Virginia patricians and a Boston Brahmin, the idea struck a... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 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...set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - History - 2002 - 340 pages
...their main livelihood.97 "Corruption of morals," as Jefferson hardly needed to remind many readers, was "the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven,...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers."98 American merchants naturally... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 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...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes bears in any State... | |
 | Craig S. Campbell - Architecture - 2004 - 472 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" (157). In further support of agrarian values, Jefferson blamed the corruption in any society on industry... | |
 | Elaine K. Swift - History - 2002 - 262 pages
...His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue," Jefferson had long insisted. "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example."46 The good society, Jefferson and his partisans believed, would overwhelmingly, if not exclusively,... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - History - 2003 - 376 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 begets subservience... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - Foreign Language Study - 2010 - 198 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...heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husband man, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence... | |
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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. 
