 | Peter Brandt - 2003 - 189 pages
...Physiol, May 2001, Vol. 126, pp. 8-15 "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." The King of Brobdingnag, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1727. "I believe that we have now reached... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2003 - 428 pages
...people to be straight-speakers. (WWD, 545, n. 21) 51. Cp. the opinion of Swift's King of Brobdingnag: "whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two blades...only one grew before; would deserve better of Mankind . . . than the whole Race of Politicians put together" (Gulliver's Travels, bk. 2, ch. 7). See n. 27... | |
 | 2004 - 266 pages
...thousands of plants with edible roots. leaves. fruits and flowers could be identified and grown as food. And he gave it for his opinion. 'that whoever could...than the whole race of politicians put together'. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. 1726 Ancient times Prehistoric horticulture developed in the Neolithic... | |
 | Alfred L. Castle - 2004 - 372 pages
...Press Order Department 2840 Kolowalu Street Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 To Mary Tenney Castle M htK-vrr could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass,...of ground where only one grew before, would deserve more of mankind, and do im1nessential service to his country, than the whole race ul politicians put... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 2012 - 288 pages
...(Government of Kenya, 1962, p1), to quote Gulliver's report of the views of the King of Brobdignag: And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...the whole race of politicians put together (Swift, 1 726, Chapter 7). For the issues are less simple: they include whether, with the same resources, many... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2009 - 304 pages
...their old boy network. Certainly, almost any American today would find some truth in the observation that "whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...than the whole race of politicians put together." 1 There are many tiny threads, some invisible, all surprisingly strong, that bind modern Gullivers.... | |
 | L. C. A. Knowles, Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles, Charles Matthew Knowles - 2005 - 658 pages
...achieved their greatest triumph. If His Majesty of Brobdingnag expressed a sound opinion when he declared that " whoever could make two ears of corn, or two...than the whole race of politicians put together," l then Dr. Charles Saunders, of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa, deserves to rank as one of... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2005 - 588 pages
...their old boy network. Certainly, almost any American today would find some truth in the observation that "whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...his country than the whole race of politicians put together."1 There are many tiny threads, some invisible, all surprisingly strong, that bind modern... | |
 | Martin B. B. Hocking - 2006 - 830 pages
..."Statistical Yearbook of China." Hong Kong, 1981. AMMONIA, NITRIC ACID AND THEIR DERIVATIVES . . . whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades...to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew hefore, would . . . do more essential service to this country, than the whole race of politicians put... | |
 | Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams - 2005 - 244 pages
...the eighteenth century that the essential servant of his country and of mankind would be the man who "could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before", and there was often a regional identification (the county was seen as an important unit) of the waste... | |
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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... 
