 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 1401889Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1838 - 834 pages
...bis opinion, "that whoever could make two cars of corn, or two bladee of gram, to grow upon a epot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, ami do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Swift.... | |
 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - 1839 - 92 pages
...could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to prow upon a spot, where only one had grown before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole class of politicians put together." — Id. A.— If this had meant giving... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1841 - 888 pages
...apothegm be true, " that he who causes two ears of corn, or two blades of erase, to grow where hut one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service lo his country, than the whole race of politicians taken together,1' then the claims of our politicians... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Or, if we come to the Lowland towns,... | |
 | 1916 - 880 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,...better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." The increase has been effected, but... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 pages
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Or, if we come to the Lowland towns,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 576 pages
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Or, if we come to the Lowland towns,... | |
 | lord Patrick Fraser - 1848 - 260 pages
...his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or twobladesof grass, to grow upon a spotof ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Or, if we come to the Lowland towns,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...following, from Gulliver's ' Voyage to Brobdingnag/ part ii. chap. vi. , point in any way to it?— " And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...than the whole race of politicians put together." E, W. HACKWOOD. Dr. Johnson, in his 'Life of Pope' ("Lives of the most Eminent English Poets," vol.... | |
 | George Cornewall Lewis - 1849 - 444 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...better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." — Ib., Brobdignag, p. 228. According... | |
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