 | Raymond Bennett Pinchbeck - 1926 - 160 頁
...wharf. 32 Agriculture was the chosen vocation of the population of the State. In 1787 Jefferson writes: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. * * * Let us never... | |
 | 1926 - 720 頁
...exists in all nations and at all times. Thomas Jefferson put it in words in a letter he wrote in 1781: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. . . . The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 452 頁
...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? 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. It is the focus... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1927 - 816 頁
...turned for occupation and livelihood. He did it with no unwillingness. Long before this he had declared that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," and he still believed it. He had always been interested in agriculture and he was convinced that by... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 頁
...nominal farmer, in the earlier days of his career. The people engaged in agriculture he declared to be "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people" ; and, no doubt influenced by the jfhysiocratic views of the French philosophers, he expressed the... | |
 | Susan Davis Lenski, Mary Ann Wham, Jerry L. Johns - 2006 - 454 頁
...government gets in the way of human accomplishments. Evidence that Does Not Support Topic • Jefferson said that those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. • Thoreau lived by himself for five years at Walden Pond, doing all of the manual labor. 6. Write... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Eric Sloane - 2003 - 130 頁
...until only a century ago. Today it has all but vanished. Like every American, Jefferson truly believed that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" and that "the farmer is the most noble and independent man in society." Whether you were a banker or... | |
 | Angela Lakwete - 2005 - 256 頁
..."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... | |
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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. 
