 ... phenomenon of 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 casualties and caprice of customers....  Notes on the State of Virginia - Página 172por Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 280 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Eric Foner - 1995 - 404 páginas
...Jefferson insisted in his Notes on the State of Virginia that dependence "hegets suhservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of amhition." Representative government could only rest on a citizenry enjoying the personal autonomy... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 páginas
...an almost mathematical way, on a corresponding lack of it in everything and everyone else. That is, "generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citi2ens bears in any State to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - 1998 - 436 páginas
...the independence that republican citizenship requires. "Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Jefferson thought it better to "let our work-shops remain in Europe" and avoid the moral corruption... | |
 | Karol Edward Soltan, Stephen L. Elkin - 2010 - 229 páginas
...1781 Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson wrote: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition" (Jefferson [1781] cited in Macpherson 1977, 18). His hope for a new "system" in early nineteenth-century... | |
 | Melvin Stokes, Melvyn Stokes, Stephen Conway - 1996 - 366 páginas
...Jefferson insisted in his Notes on the State of Virginia that dependence "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Representative government could rest only on a citizenry that enjoyed the personal autonomy that arose... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 páginas
...depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools...progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes 13 perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances; but, generally speaking, the proportion which... | |
 | Gregory S. Alexander - 2008 - 496 páginas
...dependency in his Notes on the State of Virginia, stating, "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." 22 Static vs. Dynamic Property The republican image of property as the foundation of political, social,... | |
 | James W. Ely - 1997 - 438 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of " Anthony Marc Lewis, Jefferson and Virginia's Pioneers. 1774-1781, 34 Miss Valley Hist. Rev. 551 11948l.... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 páginas
...depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . Generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears... | |
 | Eric Foner - 1999 - 452 páginas
..."independence" as "freedom," and Thomas Jefferson insisted that dependence "begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Hence the ubiquity of property qualifications for voting in Britain and the colonies. The "true reason"... | |
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