 Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial.  Public Opinion - Page 264by Walter Lippmann - 1922 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - Lord's Supper - 1803 - 336 pages
...does not admit that God had a chosen people, and therefore the proposition that " those who " labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he " had a chosen people," is, upon this construction, no assertion at all that the cultivators of the soil are his people, because... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...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...chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...greatly he preferred it to town life. You recollect, as far back as his " Notes on Virginia," he says, " Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." With regard to the tastes and wishes which he carried with him into the country, his love of reading... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 148 pages
...samples of that frugal and virtuous class who labor in the earth; of whom Jefferson well said "They are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and genuine virtues." By James Harlow, of... | |
 | Agriculture - 1844 - 574 pages
...wantonly provoked. Jefferson, in speaking of an agricultural community observes, " Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he made his pecular deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 514 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those that labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and generous virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? Those that labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people whose breasts he had made his peculiar deposit for substantial and generous virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps... | |
 | Samuel Prescott Hildreth - Indians of North America - 1848 - 590 pages
...spoken on this universally admired art! Our own countryman, the illustrious Jefferson, declares: " Those who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God — if he has chosen a people, whoae breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 604 pages
...part of the world does not admit that God had a chosen people, and therefore the proposition that " those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people," is, upon this construction, no assertion at all that the cultivators of the soil are his people, because... | |
 | Nahum Capen - United States - 1852 - 594 pages
...been hallowed by the great and the good of all ages. " Those who labor in the earth," said Jefferson, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he had made a peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." The habits, tastes and sentiments... | |
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