 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 páginas
...empire on the American colonists generally: "Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."31 Like the opposition of slavery and freedom, the opposition of city vice and rural virtue... | |
 | Maxine N. Lurie - 2010 - 520 páginas
...which most concerns this paper. "Dependence," he wrote, "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."56 The events of the revolution, when seen through the lens of republican rhetoric, demonstrated... | |
 | William Austin Stahl - 2002 - 260 páginas
...prerequisite for citizenship. "Dependence," he said, "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."2 7 Today, economic independence is a remote dream for the vast majority of people. The ad... | |
 | Dale McConkey, Peter Augustine Lawler - 2003 - 260 páginas
...it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - 2010 - 198 páginas
...on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the...but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husband men, is the proportion... | |
 | Roger G. Kennedy - 2003 - 376 páginas
...virtuous husbandmen, not to be led by them. 37 Independence Dependence begets subservience and suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. (Jefferson in Notes on Virginia, in Writings, Lib. of Am. Ed., p. 289 ff.) How independent were the... | |
 | John Ferling - 2003 - 576 páginas
...had written earlier, all hope was gone, for "dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." He attributed Europe's sad state to its long experience with monarchy. Never a friend to royalty, his... | |
 | Mansel G. Blackford - 2003 - 238 páginas
...customers." Jefferson concluded that "Dépendance [sic] begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Small Business by the Time of the American Civil War The idea that morality and freedom were somehow... | |
 | James Hoopes - 2003 - 356 páginas
..."on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of [political] ambition." Conversely, agriculture promoted freedom because farmers could aim at self-sufficiency... | |
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... which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence... 
