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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 might... "
A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United ... - Page 97
by Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 751 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 78

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1788 - 714 pages
...facred fire, which otherwife might efcape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mafs of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnimed an example. It is the mark fet on thofe, who not looking up to heaven, to their own foil and...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...fire, which otherwife might efcape from tfie face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in the mafs of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furniihed an example. It is the mark fet on thofe, who not looking up to heaven, to their own foil...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...chosen people, \vhgs$ breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial arid genuine virtue; It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of tfc* earth. Corruption of morals wi the mass tiPe&ti' tivatorsis a phenomenon of Which no age-«6*...
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Report of the Trial and Acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice ...

Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...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 might escape "from the Tace of the earth.—Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age...
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A Tour in America in 1798,1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of ..., Volume 2

Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 454 pages
...the focus in which he keeps up that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape 731 from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age or nation has furnished an example : it is.a mark set on those who, instead of looking up to Heaven,...
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...unconscious of its secret ravages. It is a remark of Mr Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, that ' corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...which no age nor nation has furnished an example.' That history will bear out this remark in its fullest latitude we doubt not, for it accords with reason...
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A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole ...

Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...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 might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...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, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no nge...
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Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of ...

B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculir 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 cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age...
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Observations on the Financial Position and Credit of Such of the States of ...

Alexander Trotter - Business & Economics - 1839 - 478 pages
...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 might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age...
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