 ... 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 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Anita L. Allen, Milton C. Regan - 1998 - 410 páginas
...thought Jefferson in the early days of the republic: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."14 But didn't the Lowell industrial model of the Jacksonian era offer some hope? Not according... | |
 | Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol - 1997 - 360 páginas
...independence that republican citizenship requires. “Dependence 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... | |
 | Gregory S. Alexander - 1999 - 500 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,... | |
 | Kimberly C. Shankman - 1999 - 152 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.6 Thus, the economic independence of the farmer protects and preserves the liberty not only... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 páginas
...begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the design of ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence...accidental circumstances: but, generally speaking, the portion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of the husbandman,... | |
 | Jonathan M. Harris - 2003 - 308 páginas
...political-economic system. In his Notes on Virginia, Jefferson wrote: "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition" (1781). His hope for the new system in early-nineteenthcentury America also had a very specific structural... | |
 | Allan Kulikoff - 2000 - 504 páginas
..."depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dépendance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." Jefferson knew that a majority of white Americans belonged to families of these virtuous small farmers.... | |
 | David Frum - 2008 - 450 páginas
..."Dependence begets subservience and venality," Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia, 'suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." But if work was valuable only to the extent that it was interesting, dependency might be an acceptable... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 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. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 páginas
...monarchical 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. '"" Like the opposition of slavery and freedom, the opposition of city vice and rural virtue was a... | |
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