 | 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).... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David E. Nye - 2004 - 388 頁
...States remain an agricultural nation. In a famous passage in Notes on the State of Virginia he declared: "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. . . . Corruption... | |
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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. 
