 | David F. Prindle - 2006 - 398 str.
...labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench, or twirling a distaff. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the health of the human body.75 Not surprisingly, Jefferson and his allies greeted Hamilton's system of... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 str.
...to think that his rulers are. Alternatively, he may prove rebellious, especially if underemployed. "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores to do the strength of the human body." Artisans are "panders of vice."27 Jefferson knew that his vision... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - 2006 - 310 str.
...materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the Atlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government. The mobs of the great cities add just so much strength to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength... | |
 | Patricia Strach - 2007 - 268 str.
...contrasts the virtue of rural life for promoting a democratic society with the cancer of urban centers: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...strength of the human body. It is the manners and the spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which... | |
 | Daniel Treisman - 2007 - 295 str.
...the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation." By contrast, the "mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (1998 [1785]). Jefferson even saw a silver lining in the outbreak of yellow fever because this would... | |
 | Thomas Bender - 2007 - 304 str.
...God" and are the repository of "substantial and genuine virtue." In contrast, according to Jefferson, "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." Jefferson clearly deemed rural virtue essential to the success of the new government. Farmers, being... | |
 | Susan Dunn - 2007 - 322 str.
...wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench. . . . Let our workshops remain in Europe. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." George Washington had been more awake than Jefferson to the advantages of economic diversification.... | |
 | Christopher Collins - 2010 - 300 str.
...manufactured goods, let the cities of Europe produce them for us, and, as for the wage slaves who make them: "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."13 The Bible endorses this antiurban bias. The first mention of a city appears in Genesis 4:17,... | |
 | Ben Kiernan - 2007 - 774 str.
...America], and with them their manners and principles." Urban ideological contamination threatened America. "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."37 We glimpse here the biological metaphor on its political march to the twentieth century. Jefferson... | |
 | David E. Shi - 2007 - 346 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... | |
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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. 
