 | Kan Wang, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Marc van Montagu - 2004 - 204 pages
...63l.5'23-dc20 94-1I609CIP ISBN 0 521 45089 6 hardback ISBN 0521 54820 9 paperback And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels (1726), Chapter 7, 'Voyage to Brobdingnag' This book... | |
 | Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter, Noel F. Robertson - 1995 - 318 pages
...Jonathan Swift in 1727 recorded in Gulliver's Travels that the King of Brobdingnag '. . . gave it for his opinion. that whoever could make two ears of corn...than the whole race of politicians put together'. Over 250 years ago. Swift recognised the accomplishment of those concerned with the then technology... | |
 | Thomas William Körner - 1996 - 548 pages
...one of Gulliver's voyages to satirizing the mathematicians of his day. Elsewhere he makes clear his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn,...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Better weather forecasting means better managed, and so more productive, harvests. Faster computation... | |
 | David Gale Johnson - 1996 - 464 pages
...69:465-70. 11 Two Blades of Grass: Research for US Agriculture ROBERT E. EVENSON And, he gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two Ears of Corn,...Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together. JONATHAN SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels The study of research as an economic activity had its origin in... | |
 | Stephen Stertz - 2013 - 110 pages
...statecraft, and thinks that: whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. This is one of the most famous statements in Swift's works; Gulliver thinks the King "confined the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
..."The Man with the Hoe," st. 1 , The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems ( 1 899). And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn,...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. JONATHAN SWIFT, (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist. Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag," ch.... | |
 | Craig Canine - 1997 - 320 pages
...after a few moments. "We may use it someday. It could save us beaucoup bucks." HEREDITY AND HORSEPOWER Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...country than the whole race of politicians put together — Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels (1726) Oh, what a beauty she was There was nothing more beautiful... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 pages
...Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835-40 Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 172.6 So Mrs Thatcher's first government rode in on a wave, with... | |
 | Hung-chen Wang, Hongzhen Wang, Borming Jahn, Shih-jung Mei - 1997 - 232 pages
...perspective when he said "...Whoever could make two ears of com or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before would deserve better of...than the whole race of politicians put together..."! I suspect the common reaction of most earth scientists to the issue of ensuring security of food supplies... | |
 | J. Hill, Heiko C. Becker, P.M. Tigerstedt - 1997 - 302 pages
...improvements were made to the text as a result of his advice. JH HCB PMAT July 1997 And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn,...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (voyage to Brobdingnag, from Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.) 1 Genetic foundations; the historical... | |
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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... 
