 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...food of fools ; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Cadenus and Vanessa. 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... | |
 | Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association - 1877 - 244 pages
...increase and flourish. HARD TIMES AND HOW TO MEET THEM. BY JOHN HICKS, OF THE OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN. " He gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1878 - 146 pages
...very much exaggeration after all in Dean Swift's oft-quoted sentiment found in Gulliver's Travels: "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... | |
 | 1878 - 312 pages
...determination of civil and 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, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1878 - 258 pages
...published on the art of government. The big King said only, "Pooh! pooh!" but afterward gave it as 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 pages
...determination of civil and 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, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve bettei of mankind,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than '.!..a. of a ministry. Gullmer^a Travels. He gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of com or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of his mankind and... | |
 | First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) - 1880 - 224 pages
...EntroDuctng &>on. ftlarsljall $3. tLffililBer. The next speaker will illustrate a remark made by Swift, " 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... | |
 | First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.) - 1880 - 188 pages
...applause. tntrotadng Jljon. iHavsljaH ijp. The next speaker will illustrate a remark made by Swift, " 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... | |
 | Edward Step - 1881 - 284 pages
...municipal possessions. Dean Swift, in his " Travels of Gulliver," makes one of his characters hold the 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... | |
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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... 
