| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...tfc* earth. Corruption of morals wi the mass tiPe&ti' tivatorsis a phenomenon of Which no age-«6* nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who noHooking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry., as does the husbandman, for i heir subsistence,... | |
| 1805 - 596 pages
...which he keeps alive that sacred lire, which. otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistance, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers." They look up to Heaven ! Where,... | |
| Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...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...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistance, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of 'customers." They look up to Heaven! Where,... | |
| Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 454 pages
...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,... | |
| Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...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...does the husbandman,) for their subsistence depend upon the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suflbcates... | |
| Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...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...husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ... | |
| 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... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...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...age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the 'jnark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil; and industry, as does the husbandman,... | |
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