 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 pages
...on the link between political virtue and the life of the rural republican farmer: Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit of substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which... | |
 | Peter Quante - 2004 - 268 pages
...it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness. 229" "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever...had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made his peculiur deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 pages
...may require of public policy. One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm those by expectations... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 pages
...may require of public policy. One can reach those conclusions without any commitment to the view that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen II people." Not only can we rely upon a multitude of contemporary testimonials, but we can confirm... | |
 | Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Colin C Williams - 2003 - 220 pages
...nostalgia, we attempt to locate the noble yeomen, stewards of the earth, whom Thomas Jefferson saw as 'the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He made His peculiar deposit for a substantial and genuine virtue' (Shi, 1985: 77-8). Historians have... | |
 | Angela Lakwete - 2005 - 256 pages
..."the immensity of land" in the United States should occupy "all our citizens." Indeed, he declared, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 pages
...1801 onwards, he failed to realize his vision of the new nation as an agrarian republic - he believed 'those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God' - deploring the growth and industrialization of its cities, and the rampant spreading of slave plantations,... | |
 | John Michael Vlach - 2003 - 410 pages
...About the CD-ROM, 399 fc\j I m * BARNS ACROSS AMERICA THE BARN IN AMERICAN HISTORY Writing in 1787 that "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," Thomas Jefferson promoted the virtues of a country devoted to agriculture hoping that the United States... | |
 | Susan Davis Lenski, Mary Ann Wham, Jerry L. Johns - 2006 - 454 pages
...follow the dictates of reason. • Jefferson believed in minimal government. • Jefferson said that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. • Thoreau valued his freedom above all else. • Thoreau said that people can elevate their lives.... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 pages
...few of the Founding Fathers themselves were family farmers. "Those who labor in the earth [,] . . . the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," were not well represented among those attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Only Jacob Broom... | |
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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. 
