 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1976 - 1382 頁
...cultivator. Manufacture must therefore IH> resorted to of necessity not of choice, to support the surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the Industry of the husbandman. la It best then that all our citizens should be employed In its improvement, or that one-half should... | |
 | Patricia Limerick - 1987 - 404 頁
...nation to remain at the happy and virtuous stage of agriculture. In America, Thomas Jefferson said, "we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman. . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose... | |
 | Michael Williams - 1992 - 630 頁
...pioneer life expounded similar ideas about the agrarian ideal. In America, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "We have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman." Why, then, turn to manufacturing, especially since "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people... | |
 | Peter De Vos - 1991 - 412 頁
...cities for its support. Jefferson's ideal for America was a nation of independent farmers. He wrote: ... we have an immensity of land courting the industry...citizens should be employed in its improvement, or that one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other?... | |
 | E. Thomas Sullivan - 1991 - 345 頁
...survival. This is the meaning of Jefferson's well known paean to the virtues of agrarian independence: [W]e have an immensity of land courting the industry...citizens should be employed in its improvement, or that one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other?... | |
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In Europe the lands are either cultivated, or locked up against the cultivator. Manufacture must therefore be resorted to, of necessity, not of choice, to support the surplus of their people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the... 
