 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
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 頁
...Country, Federer states: "In Query XIX of his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote: 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." In his book The... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 280 頁
...contemporaries, Jefferson thought of rural life as an ideal balance between primitive and urban conditions. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he declares in Notes on Virginia (1787), "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made... | |
 | Steven J. Keillor - 2007 - 224 頁
...Thomas Jefferson, "The Philosophy Jefferson hoped for an agrarian, Unitarian republic. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," he claimed. Western small farmers were his ideal citizens, and Unitarians were to become the religious... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 2010 - 300 頁
...farmers bounty and their own dishonest wits. "Those who labor in the earth," wrote Jefferson in 1785, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Corruption has never been associated with "cultivators," he asserts. Then, using another biblical allusion,... | |
 | Trent Watts - 2008 - 280 頁
...generations of eighteenth and nineteenth-century white American men. Jefferson famously wrote that those "who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." "Dependence," which Jefferson equated with the nonownership of land, "begets subservience and venality,... | |
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