 | 1917 - 756 pages
...the vicinity of which such land is obtainable at reasonable figures. If it be true 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, deserves better of mankind and does more essential service to his country than the whole list of politicians... | |
 | United States. Bureau of the Census - Mathematics - 1943 - 84 pages
...an estimated low of $5.4 billions in 1932. # * * "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 where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do . . , essential service to his... | |
 | Jews - 1918 - 474 pages
...the Hun! Buy Liberty Bonds! THE MENORAH JOURNAL "And he gaoe it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, umild deseroe better of mankind, and do essential service to his country." — Jonathan Swift HE typewriter,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 852 pages
...with moral support. He tried to buck up Acheson by sending him a quote from Swift: "Whomever could make two ears of Corn or two Blades of grass to grow upon a Spit of Ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential Service... | |
 | Jules Janick - Science - 1992 - 498 pages
...Presidential Address to the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in 1988: "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... | |
 | Stephen Stertz - Study Aids - 2013 - 110 pages
...cautious. The King is unfamiliar with European secrets of statecraft, and thinks 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,... | |
 | Daniel Hillel - Science - 1998 - 801 pages
...spring day 351/58 = 6.1 mm for the late spring day 459/58 = 7.9 mm for the summer day 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... | |
 | Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams - Science - 2005 - 244 pages
...eighteenth century that the essential servant of his country and of mankind would be the man who "could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before", and there was often a regional identification (the county was seen as an important unit) of the waste... | |
 | Martin B. B. Hocking - Technology & Engineering - 2006 - 833 pages
...Yearbook of China." Hong Kong, 1981. AMMONIA, NITRIC ACID AND THEIR DERIVATIVES . . . whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew hefore, would . . . do more essential service to this country, than the whole race of politicians put... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 461 pages
...allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could do no more. YOUNG. " Whoever can make two ears of corn, two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before," says Swift, " would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the... | |
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