 | Donald Davidson - 1938 - 394 halaman
...object, which will be the case, while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. In these sentences the basic theme of American history is set forth in epitome, and in such form as... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 halaman
...object, which will be the case, while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. I have tired you by this time with disquisitions which you have already heard repeated by others, a... | |
 | Jorge Reina Schement, Terry Curtis - 1995 - 302 halaman
...enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption." To Madison, 1787, "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do." To de Meunier, 1786, "An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of things... | |
 | 550 halaman
...while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled together upon one another hi large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. And again: Before the establishment of the American states, nothing was known to history but the men... | |
 | Steven H. Jaffe - 1996 - 246 halaman
...corruption than the urban life led by merchants, industrialists, and factory workers. "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt, as in Europe," he had written to James Madison. Jefferson wanted the United States to remain a nation of farmers,... | |
 | Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - 1997 - 300 halaman
...comparatively small cities like Richmond appear to be unmanageable. The Problem of Size When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson There is considerable evidence to suggest that sheer size alone... | |
 | Hal Niedzviecki - 1999 - 172 halaman
...spits in the muck] I learned it. Father wanted me to learn it. Jefferson said: 'We shall become as corrupt as in Europe and go to eating one another as they do there.' That is it. You see? Eating one another. So there is nothing else, just a bunch of pigs, that is all.... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - 2000 - 634 halaman
...western lands were exhausted, he wrote, Americans would "get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there."10 The surveyors headed west in late 1785 as soon as the Iroquois and the Ohio Indians ceded... | |
 | J. Ellen Gainor - 1999 - 260 halaman
...conjured more specters of savagery and devourment. As Thomas Jefferson had warned: "When we get piled up upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there" (qtd. in Muccigrosso 122). For many white, middle-class men, urban women contributed to the threat.... | |
 | John Hood - 2001 - 334 halaman
...object, which will be the case while there remains vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we...in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.2 Jefferson argued that farming led to virtue and to support for limited government "by the most... | |
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I think we shall be so as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe,... 
