 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 str.
...large cities as pestilence to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," he wrote at one point. "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government as sores do to the strength of the human body," he wrote at another. Jefferson simply could not see how the free and dignified community life diat... | |
 | Michael A Flannery, Lloyd Library And Museum, Dennis B Worthen - 2001 - 352 str.
...family of any size." 2 Democracy, he fervently believed, derived from the countryside, not the city: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government," he wrote in his Notes on Virginia, "as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners... | |
 | David E. Shi - 2001 - 354 str.
...class strife attendant with urbanization. "The mobs of great cities," he claimed, "add just so much support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."32 But Jefferson's agrarian republic had quickly been displaced by the forces of expansive commercialism... | |
 | William A. Shutkin - 2001 - 300 str.
...from a state of preeminence and grace to one of decadence. "The mobs of great cities," he declared, "add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores to the strength of the human body."" Tocqueville explained America's exceptionalism in less graphic... | |
 | Donald H. Parkerson - 2002 - 220 str.
...Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government as sores do to the strength of the human body. ... a degeneracy ... a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.'"3 As early... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 str.
...Jefferson's urban vision is not to be found in his famous strictures in query 19 ("Manufactures") — "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" — but rather in query 3 ("Sea-Ports"). Jefferson left this query blank: "Having no ports but our... | |
 | Douglas E. Booth - 2002 - 294 str.
...wedded to it liberty and interest by the most lasting bonds."4 By contrast, Jefferson also wrote that "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."5 Jefferson early on expressed rural values and antiurban sentiments that remain influential... | |
 | Dale Jamieson - 2002 - 410 str.
...158l argued that cities were inimical to good government: "The mobs of the great cities add just as much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body". In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Jefferson wrote: "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals,... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 str.
...Jefferson's urban vision is not to be found in his famous strictures in query 19 ("Manufactures") — "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support ot pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" — but rather in query 3 ("Sea-Ports").... | |
 | Paola Boi - 2003 - 288 str.
...continued, "let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff [...]. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (Watson 46). The proliferation of such sores on the body politic by the introduction of commerce and... | |
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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. 
