 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 ページ
...causes; with some other obvious topicks 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 only one grew before; would deserve better of mankind, and do more... | |
 | Jules Janick - 1992 - 498 ページ
...(1726) in his 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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 ページ
...of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 8, p. 426 (1953). 30 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... | |
 | 1995 - 220 ページ
...days may be long; a way to rescue their memory from oblivion. It has been said that "the man who makes two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground. where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together." Yet. as a farmer, he leaves... | |
 | Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter, Noel F. Robertson - 1995 - 318 ページ
...in 1727 recorded in Gulliver's Travels that the King of Brobdingnag '. . . 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... | |
 | Kan Wang, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Marc van Montagu - 2004 - 204 ページ
...94-1I609CIP ISBN 0 521 45089 6 hardback ISBN 0521 54820 9 paperback 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... | |
 | Thomas William Körner - 1996 - 548 ページ
...Gulliver's voyages to satirizing the mathematicians of his day. Elsewhere he makes clear 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... | |
 | David Gale Johnson - 1996 - 464 ページ
...Two Blades of Grass: Research for US Agriculture ROBERT E. EVENSON 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... | |
 | Stephen Stertz - 2013 - 110 ページ
...King is unnecessarily 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... | |
 | Joyce E. Chaplin - 1993 - 434 ページ
...detached from political gain or self-interest, as when a character in Gulliver's Travels (1726) said, "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 . . . than... | |
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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... 
