 | Samuel Sands - 1848 - 452 pages
...interest of $100 per acre. The remark of Swift, is peculiarly applicable to Col. CaBron: " Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankiod, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1882 - 442 pages
...to remind you of what Swift says, — the old thing that you have heard so many times. He gave it as his opinion, that " whoever would make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...farming took its rise in Norfolk. The king of Brobdingnag gave it as his opinion, ' that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserre better of mankind and do more essential... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Education - 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... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 444 pages
...obvious topics which are not worth considering ; 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 one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 974 pages
...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... | |
 | Fennings Taylor - Biography - 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,... | |
 | John A. Lynch - Atlantic and Great Western Canal - 1873 - 64 pages
...the foundation for the success of all the others. And it has been said with truth, that whoever makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before, does essential service to his country. THE CHANNEL OF THE MISSISSIPPI.... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Universalist churches - 1881 - 270 pages
...operate." It was the sage King of Brobdingnag who remarked to the loquacious Gulliver that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country... | |
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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, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole... 
