 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1788 - 714 pages
...God, if ever he had a chofen people, whofe breafls he has made his peculiar depofit for fubftantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that facred fire, which otherwife might efcape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mafs... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...God, if ever he had a chofen people, whofe breads he has made his peculiar depofit for fubftantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that facred fire, which otherwife might efcape from tfie face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...Jefferson's authority. I presume he will not,, ^ .,. 5 .,; ' . , -,-»- . , u . Those who labor on the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he...sacred fire, which Otherwise might escape "from the Tace of the earth.—Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...farmers. He will not question Mr. Jefferson's authority. I presume he will not. " Those who labor on the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he...It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred lire, which. otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in the mass... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 454 pages
...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...genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps up that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape 731 from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the uther ? Those veho labour in the earth are the ch osen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose...made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtne. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from... | |
 | 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...peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Again he says, " While we have, land to labor, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
