 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.  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 332by Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Hermann (pseud.) - Free trade - 1831 - 118 pages
...confine them to Europe. As his opinions may not be generally known, I will here quote his own words. " 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... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...childish recollections. He seemed to return to private life with great satisfaction. At last he was his own master, and could, he hoped, dispose of his time...retirement delightful to him. Books were at all times his chosen companions, and his acquaintance with many languages gave him great power of selection.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other ? 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...childish recollections. He seemed to return to private life with great satisfaction. At last he was his own master and could, he hoped, dispose of his time...retirement delightful to him. Books were at all times his chosen companions, and his acquaintance with many languages gave him great power of selection.... | |
 | Stewart Pearce - Luzerne County (Pa.) - 1860 - 588 pages
...want stares them in the face, life becomes a burden, and poison or the pistol often closes the scene. Those, who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. — Jefferson. "... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...AGRICULTURE. " AGRICULTURE is the most healthful, the most useful, the most noble employment of man." " THOSE who labor in the earth, are the chosen people of God." — Thomas Jefferson. THE ELEMENTS OF HAPPINESS. " A GOOD man who has lived long in the world, without... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...one-half should be called off from that, to exercise manufactures, and handicraft arts for the other. 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... | |
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