 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1863 - 380 pages
...there is truth in the doctrine of him who was not wont to write genially or kindly, that " he who can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together/' let us not arrogate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 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...than the whole race of politicians put together." The learning of this people is very defective ; consisting only of morality, history, poetry, and mathematics,... | |
 | 1864 - 622 pages
...improvement, and give a retrospective application to the sentiment of Dean Swift, that " Whoever has made two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and has done more essential service to his country, than the whole race... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em. And so proceed ad inftnitum. Poetry, a Rhapsody. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...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
...gunpowder. *' I have perused many of their books, especially those on history and morality.'' — Page 161. his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn,...than the whole race of politicians put together.* * This aphorism has become celebrated, and is often quoted by statesmen and political economists. It... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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...blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than... | |
 | 1865 - 972 pages
...for her harshness. Ham lived many years, and Broadfoot was not the only Indian who felt his revenge. Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of grdund, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service... | |
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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... 
