 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 頁
...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... | |
 | Richard A. Levins - 2003 - 112 頁
...To Jefferson, farmers as a group were "first in utility and ought to be first in respect"; they were "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." Jefferson feared a tyranny not of... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Lewis P. Simpson - 1994 - 274 頁
...nation would forever be the homeland of "those w,ho labour in the earth." They are, Jefferson said, "the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." In their "breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." When he expressed... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 頁
...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... | |
 | Paola Boi - 2003 - 288 頁
...For as the former US President Thomas Jefferson believed, "Those who labor in the earth [... were] the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people" (Watson 46). In consequence, he further argued that the percentage of non-farming, manufacturing wage-laborers... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - 2004 - 450 頁
...Ausbaus der Manufakturen in den Vereinigten Staaten mit einer moralischen Argumentation: Those who labour 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. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 頁
...true basis of republican virtue. As he had written in Notes on the State of Virginia, "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." To preserve liberty, Jefferson argued,... | |
 | Lance Banning - 2004 - 116 頁
...ability to dress ideas in highly gifted prose, had put the argument in moving language: 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. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion... | |
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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. 
