 | John P. Dickenson - 1996 - 364 pages
...the equivalent amounts in 1988 were 262 and 65 kg per hectare. 'Whoever could make two ears of oarn to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would ... do more essential service to his oauntry than the whole race of politicians put together/... | |
 | Craig Canine - 1997 - 320 pages
..."We may use it someday. It could save us beaucoup bucks." HEREDITY AND HORSEPOWER 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 of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Man with the Hoe and Other Poems ( 1 899). 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... | |
 | J. Hill, Heiko C. Becker, P.M. Tigerstedt - 1997 - 302 pages
...result of his advice. JH HCB PMAT July 1997 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... | |
 | Edward Baugh - 1998 - 148 pages
...scrapbook is a sentence from that most shrewd observer of mankind, Jonathan Swift: 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 of... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1998 - 308 pages
...perhaps some answers) on human societies. CHAPTER 8 ECOLOGY: SPECIES LIVING TOGETHER 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 of... | |
 | Daniel Hillel - 1998 - 771 pages
...spring day 351/58 = 6.1 mm for the late spring day 459/58 = 7.9 mm for the summer day 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 mankind and do more essential service to his country... | |
 | William Least Heat Moon - 1999 - 644 pages
...mind wonderfully." — Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1777) 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 of... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...praised! Samuel Pepys, Diary, 31 October 1666 16 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 of... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...Brobdingnag," chap. 7: "And [the King of Brobdingnag] 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 of... | |
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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... 
