 | 1865 - 972 pages
...spot of grdund, 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. BACHELORS' WOES. BT MABY IIENLET. We laugh at his odd ways, We rail at his odd life, And ask, with... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 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. Gullicer's Tracels. * As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps, parts of the world which they... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 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.* * This aphorism has become celebrated, and is often quoted by statesmen and political economists. It... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...blades of grass grow where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves ordinary... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 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. Gu:liver's Travels. Bread is the staff of life. T.,ieafa Tub. WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1669-1729. A /T USIC... | |
 | United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue, 1866-1870 - 1870 - 170 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." The Commissioner leaves it to his readers to make the application. WOOL AND WOOLLENS. In March, 18G7, an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1871 - 406 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...together." The learning of this people is very defective; consisting only of morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.... | |
 | 1872 - 692 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. About this time I had strong longings to be delivered from this strange country, and to revisit the... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 168 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.' " (Which was especially true of the corrupt placemen and place-hunters of SWIFT'S^ day, when great... | |
 | 1872 - 602 pages
...a spot of ground where only OM grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and *> more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." It occurs in Gulliver's Travels, p. 129, voL i., 1st edit., 1726. FITZ KICHAKD. LOCAL DISTINCTIONS.... | |
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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... 
