 | Fennings Taylor, William Notman - 1867 - 614 pages
...that whoever could make two ears of corn and two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground ivhere only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind...to his country than the whole race of politicians together." THE words extracted from Gulliver's travels, with which we have prefaced this sketch, conclusively... | |
 | Fennings Taylor - 1867 - 484 pages
...cheer for Gulliver. Let us show our appreciation of his opinions by directly or indirectly persuading " two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before." The late Honorable Adam Fergusson, besides being a Scotch gentleman, a racy whig and a genial friend,... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...vanity. Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service...country than the whole race of politicians put together. False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves ordinary... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs. — PLUTARCH. Theseits. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Gu:liver's Travels. Bread is the staff of life. T.,ieafa Tub. WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1669-1729. A /T USIC... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they -would not bear the charge of collecting. 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 his mankind, and do more essential service... | |
 | United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue, 1866-1870 - 1870 - 170 pages
...equality of burdens and benefits is violated. In Gulliver's Voyage to Brobdingnag occurs this passage: "And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...than the whole race of politicians put together." The Commissioner leaves it to his readers to make the application. WOOL AND WOOLLENS. In March, 18G7,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1871 - 406 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,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 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...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. About this time I had strong longings to be delivered from this strange country, and to revisit the... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 168 pages
...children. There have been kings farther wrong than that of Brobdingnag, who, according to DEAN SWIFT,* "gave it for his opinion, ' that whoever could make...than the whole race of politicians put together.' " (Which was especially true of the corrupt placemen and place-hunters of SWIFT'S^ day, when great... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1872 - 508 pages
...been a policy of systematic improvidence and spoliation. Every one remembers the saying of Dean Swift, that " whoever could make two ears of corn or two...his country, than the whole race of politicians." Has not our government supplied a new and striking commentary on this saying in sporting with one of... | |
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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... 
