 Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial.  Public Opinion - 第 264 頁Walter Lippmann 著 - 1922 - 427 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 頁
...was not reducible to land enough and people enough. For Jefferson, panegyrist to farmers everywhere ("Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God"), the imperial nation was to be secured by a people united in their shared commitment to republican principles.... | |
 | P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - 268 頁
...caught in a moment of rare idiocy arguing against the industrialization of the United States, said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God . . . whose breasts He has made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." This, by the... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - 436 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Mansel G. Blackford - 2003 - 238 頁
...and again in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite vastly changed economic circumstances. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," wrote Jefferson, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for... | |
 | Susan Davis Lenski, Mary Ann Wham, Jerry L. Johns - 2006 - 454 頁
...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.... | |
 | Kyle Longley - 2004 - 382 頁
...democratic, and egalitarian American yeoman farmer. In 1787, he had written that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." He distrusted city dwellers and their perceived greed and speculation, and he feared people such as... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 頁
...expense of the states and the Federalist Party's anti-French proclivities. He stated his belief that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. "Jefferson was a scientist of natural history, a brilliant classical architect and a knowledgeable... | |
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