 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 336 pages
...been a favourite opinion with me, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have Ion" bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...criminal causes ; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering. And, he gave it for his opinion, " That, whoever could make two ears of corn,...than the whole race of politicians put together." The learning of this people is very defective ; consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 328 pages
...been a favourite opinion with me, ' that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...ground where only one (Dr Kennie might say where none)grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together :" we yet cannot suppose that • Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss, £c. By the... | |
 | 1822 - 326 pages
...been a favourite opinion with me, ' that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...been a favourite opinion with me, " that whoever could make two ears of com, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together." Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 pages
...been a favourite opinion with me, " that whoever could make two ears of com, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together." Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | James Rennell - 1830 - 588 pages
...to Alexander's post on the Jaxartes, the sud3 " And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever would make TWO ears of corn, or TWO blades of grass, to...than the whole race of politicians put together." (SWIFT'S Gulliver's Travels.) den appearance of the ambassadors there proves, either that they could... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more < service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. The learning of this people is very defective ; consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics,... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...accuracy than of his point. The sentence is as follows : " And he (King of Brobdignag) gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn,...than the whole race of politicians put together." between church and stale, (if that was in our author's contemplation, which we hardly think his words... | |
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race... 
