 | Stewart Pearce - 1860 - 588 pages
...want stares them in the face, life becomes a burden, and poison or the pistol often closes the scene. Those, who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. — Jefferson. "... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pages
...AGRICULTURE. " AGRICULTURE is the most healthful, the most useful, the most noble employment of man." " THOSE who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God." — Thomas Jefferson. THE ELEMENTS OF HAPPINESS. " A GOOD man who has lived long in the world, without... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 pages
...from the Notes on Virginia, a part of it placed in capitals, thus : " Those who labor in the fields are the chosen people of God, IF EVER HE HAD A CHOSEN PEOPLE." Dr. Ma?on asks how Christian ears relish this "profane babbling," and he ranks it among other " affronts... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1883 - 372 pages
...to its culture, especially a bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote: "Those! .who labor in the earth are the chosen people...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... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 pages
...its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 pages
...its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 pages
...its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This doctrine was not original with Jefferson, but its application to national affairs on a great scale... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1892 - 374 pages
...to its culture, especially a bread grain ; next in value to bread is oil." At another time he wrote: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtre. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 558 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...which he 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... | |
 | Henry Sylvester Nash - 1897 - 328 pages
...unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its corruption. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."66 All of this, barring the sceptical and sarcastic words " if ever he had a people," would... | |
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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. 
