They answer, «He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto
other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons» (Matt.
Not exact matches
Being the great
husbandman that he is, having taken the church under his care, he waters some shoots that they may grow, but prunes
others when he perceives their excessive growth.50
The agrarian ideal of Jefferson and
others in the early republic — the ideal of a nation of frugal independent
husbandmen ready to serve at their community's call — owes much to this notion of republican virtue.