 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 頁
...blasphemies did not convince voters of his apostasy, they should consider his statement that farmers "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." This dumbfounded his critics: if ever7.2* Jefferson proved his irreligion through deeds as well as... | |
 | Richard Nate - 2003 - 362 頁
...Lebensführung gesehen hatte. Bäuerliches Leben war danach zugleich ein gottgefälliges Leben: 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... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 頁
...expressions of natural law. When he famously declared in the Notes on the State of Virginia that "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," Jefferson was in effect arguing... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 頁
...rhapsodized on the link between political virtue and the life of the rural republican farmer: 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 of substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | R. Daniel Monroe - 2003 - 278 頁
...power. In \\isNotesontheStateofVirginia, Jefferson suggests farmers were divinely blest: "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." Those employed in manufacturing... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - 2010 - 198 頁
...should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? 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... | |
 | Peter Quante - 2004 - 268 頁
...because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness. 229" "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 peculiur deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Winfried Fluck, Welf Werner - 2003 - 314 頁
...ihr durch die Disziplin der harten Arbeit civic virtue gleichsam garantiert ist: »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.«5 Durch den Wandel der USA von einer... | |
 | Carolyn Johnsen - 2003 - 208 頁
...affair with the family farm has deep roots. Thomas Jefferson, a farmer himself, wrote, "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."" Big companies that bear little... | |
 | Dale McConkey, Peter Augustine Lawler - 2003 - 260 頁
...Thomas Jefferson, in The Life andSelected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 84-85. 58. Eg, "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 of morals in the mass... | |
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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. 
