| Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 páginas
...clafles of citizens bears in any ftate to that of its huibandmen, is the proportion of its unfound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to meafure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labor then, let us never wiih to fee our citizens... | |
| Richard Parkinson - 1805 - 454 páginas
...accidental circumstances ; but, generally speaking, the proportion .which the aggregate of the other class of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is in the proportion its unsound bears to its healthy parts, and is good enough barometer whereby to measure... | |
| Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 páginas
...generally speaking, the proportion which the whole of the other classes of citizens bears in any country to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. " While we have land to labour on, then let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench,... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 páginas
...the arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally speaking, the proportion, which the aggregate of the other classes...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." Impressed with these strong, unsophisticated views, he bewailed, with an incessant desire of redressment,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 296 páginas
...the arts, has sometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances : but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench,... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 páginas
...arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstances ; but, generally speaking, the proportion, which the aggregate of the other classes...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.' Impressed with these strong, unsophisticated views, he beheld with an incessant desire of reformation,... | |
| William Sullivan - 1834 - 398 páginas
...(Jefferson to John Adams, June 10, 1815, vol. iv. p. 262.) " The proportion, which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears, in any state, to...barometer, whereby to measure its degree of corruption." " The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 páginas
...speaking, the proportion, which the agfregate of the other classes of citizens bears, in any tate, to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.' Impressed with these strong, unsophisticated views, he beheld with an incessant desire of reformation,... | |
| Alexander Trotter - 1839 - 478 páginas
...the arts, has sometimes, perhaps, been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour, then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1839 - 322 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprices of customers. For the proportion which the aggregate of other classes of citizens bears in any state to that...the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts." These are strong words. But we will always respect farmers. We consider their occupation, not only... | |
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