 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...spot of ground, where only one grew before, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians...together. The learning of this people is very defective : consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematicks, wherein they must be allowed to excel.... | |
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...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 politicians put together.' < species of trial.' One who understood Christianity far better, as he practised its precepts more... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...only one L a grew 148 SWIFTIANA. grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." CLII. NEW SYSTEMS OF NATURE. New systems of nature are but new fashions, which will vary in every age;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 336 pages
...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 politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have Ion" bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to hist 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, wherein they must be allowed to excel.... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 328 pages
...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 politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...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
...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 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
...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 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
...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 politicians put together." Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
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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... 
