 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1998 - 572 pages
...his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn, or even two blades of grass grow upon a plot of ground where only one grew before would deserve...than the whole race of politicians put together." The praise of Jefferson by the votaries of science was not mistaken, though it was often given for... | |
 | Daniel Hillel - 1998 - 771 pages
...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...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 21. IRRIGATION AND WATER-USE EFFICIENCY INTRODUCTION Water constitutes the... | |
 | William Least Heat Moon - 1999 - 644 pages
...concentrates his mind wonderfully." — Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1777) Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...country than the whole race of politicians put together. — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) The earth belongs in usufruct to the living. — Thomas... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - 2000 - 194 pages
...gives Gulliver to understand that his principles were not those of science but of utility: The King "gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make...than the whole race of Politicians put together." 409 It is to such practical and simple demands of utility that the Royal Society could not live up... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, "Voyage to Brobdingnag," chap. 7: "And [the King of Brobdingnag] gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two...than the whole race of politicians put together." . 346 • 169 The botanist refers . . . than an eastern one!: The source for this paragraph is Thoreau's... | |
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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... 
