 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 ページ
...opinion with me, " that whoever could make two ears of com, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better...mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Possessed with this idea, I have long bent my thoughts... | |
 | James Rennell - 1830 - 588 ページ
...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, would deserve better...mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." (SWIFT'S Gulliver's Travels.) den appearance of the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 ページ
...opinion, ' that whoever could make two ears of com, 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 < service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. The learning of this people... | |
 | 1835 - 916 ページ
...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...mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." between church and stale, (if that was in our author's... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 ページ
...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 bis country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Swift. VOL. II. SHEIiZiBAXTKS, VA. PUBLISHED... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 ページ
...his opinion," that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of gran, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential itrrice to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Suifi. PJTA'riBBBOJUO) VA.... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 ページ
...opinion, " that whoever eould make two ears of com, or two bladei of erase, to now noon a «Dot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more eseential service tobi» country, than the whole race of politicians put together.» Srifi . vr; PJSTEBSBtmti,... | |
 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - 1839 - 92 ページ
...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 the country... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 ページ
...No. 5. -£ that whoever could make two cars of com, or two blades of grue, to grow upon a spot row before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to hie couni race of poLiticiana put together." Swift, PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR, ¡Tin j publication... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1841 - 888 ページ
...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... | |
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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... 
