 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1859 - 552 pages
...Brobdignag gave it as 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,...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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...were not in the case, 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...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 628 pages
...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,...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 - Electronic journals - 1916 - 838 pages
...express to Gulliver the 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,...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 - Agricultural chemistry - 1860 - 360 pages
...AND HE GAVE IT FOR HIS OPINION, THAT WHOEVER WOULD MAKE TWO EARS OF CORN, OR TWO BLADES OF GRASS, TO GROW UPON A SPOT OF GROUND WHERE ONLY ONE GREW BEFORE,...THAN THE WHOLE RACE OF POLITICIANS PUT TOGETHER." SWIFT. CONTENTS. Early History of British Agrculture — Plants and Fruits Native to Great Britain... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1862 - 916 pages
...the fabled king of Brobdignag, " 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,...than the whole race of politicians put together." RENSSELAER. BP JOHNSON, ESQ. : Secretary State Agricultural Society. SIK — I have to submit to you... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...STALL. FEW will dispute the maxim of the king of Brobdingnag, that whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...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,...than the whole race of politicians put together." The learning of this people is very defective ; consisting only of morality, history, poetry, and mathematics,... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 622 pages
...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 of politicians put together" Then, too, will be realized and appreciated the grand truth of the remark of Daniel Webster, that "... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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,...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... | |
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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... 
