 | James Andrew Everitt - 1907 - 328 pages
...virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fife, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example." And writing to John Jay, in 1785, Jefferson said : "Cultivators... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 pages
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." And because manufacturing called for condensed population and seemingly more or less dependence for... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1915 - 518 pages
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape , from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivatorsjg a phenomenon of which no age nor natiojL-ha?Turnished an examplelff jit is the mark set... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example. Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 1922 - 448 pages
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." However much of the romantic return to nature may have entered into this exclamation, there was V-also... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1922 - 292 pages
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of the cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . Dependence... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - 1925 - 334 pages
...substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators of the earth is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Such was his favourite text. He repeated it with varying changes, as when he wrote John Jay: "Cultivators... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 450 pages
...deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the...Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenonj>f wJucuJio_age_ nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not... | |
 | Stephan Thernstrom - 1964 - 308 pages
...to agricultural pursuits, the interests of Lowell will rest secure; for, as Jefferson remarks . . . •corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age nor nation furnishes an example.' "10 The Lowell solution was a halfway house, not a viable rationale for a new... | |
 | Stephen Cornell - 1990 - 289 pages
...agrarianism. "Those who labor in the earth," he wrote, "are the chosen people of God. . . . Corruption in morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. . . . While we have land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench,... | |
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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. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise,... 
