 | 1858 - 594 pages
...markets. This great advance in arable farming took its rise in Norfolk. The king of Brobdingnag gave it as his opinion, ' that whoever could make two ears of...than the whole race of politicians put together.' This passage might have been written upon Lord Townshend, who retired in 1730 from public affairs,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1859 - 612 pages
...edition. Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co. 1855. IT was the King of Brobdignag who avowed the opinion, " that whoever could make two ears of corn...than the whole race of politicians put together." Whatever may be said of politicians, there can be no doubt that the scientific farmer is a public benefactor.... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1859 - 552 pages
...markets. This great advance in arable farming took its rise in Norfolk. The king of Brobdignag gave it as his opinion, " that whoever could make two ears of...essential service to his country than the whole race of politician!) put together." This passage might have been written upon Lord Townsend, who retired in... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 628 pages
...into his grave. Swift thought so, at least, and Swift's thoughts are generally worth some regard ; " and he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...than the whole race of politicians put together." t That something then at least the world owes to Macaulay even he allows, in whose nostrils the very... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 pages
...cultivator of the soil. Swift, with his fine satire, made the King of Brobdingnag express to Gulliver the opinion, ' that whoever could make two ears of corn,...than the whole race of politicians put together.' The increase has been effected, but the men whose scientific work has led to it are mostly unknown... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 360 pages
...SEPARATELY, FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF AGRICULTURAL READERS. " AND HE GAVE IT FOR HIS OPINION, THAT WHOEVER WOULD MAKE TWO EARS OF CORN, OR TWO BLADES OF GRASS, TO...THE WHOLE RACE OF POLITICIANS PUT TOGETHER." SWIFT. CONTENTS. Early History of British Agrculture — Plants and Fruits Native to Great Britain — Fitzherbert's... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1860 - 1040 pages
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 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...lorsqu'il ne s'ag1ssait pas d'un ennemi ou " whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...than the whole race of politicians put together." No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1862 - 916 pages
...did not intend, give new and lasting significance to the opinion of the fabled king of Brobdignag, " that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades...than the whole race of politicians put together." RENSSELAER. BP JOHNSON, ESQ. : Secretary State Agricultural Society. SIK — I have to submit to you... | |
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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... 
