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Life of Thomas Jefferson: With Selections from the Most Valuable Portions of ... - Page 79
by B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 431 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 78

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 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...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 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...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...if ever he had a chosen people, \vhgs$ breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial arid genuine virtue; It is the focus in which he keeps...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 - 1805 - 590 pages
...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...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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Report of the Trial and Acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice ...

1805 - 596 pages
...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 lire, which. otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. — Corruption of morals in the mass...
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A Tour in America in 1798,1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of ..., Volume 2

Richard Parkinson - 1805 - 454 pages
...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 up that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape 731 from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals...
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A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United ...

Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 pages
...a chosen people, whose breasts he has 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 the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation...
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 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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Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson: With ...

B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 pages
...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...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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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 pages
...chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus...the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no nge nor nation bus furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven,...
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