| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 trang
...with some other 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... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 trang
...; with some other 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 only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more... | |
| Ernest Ingersoll - 1885 - 362 trang
...return an examination of the Arkansas Vallev. XX THE ARKANSAS VALLEY. 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... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 trang
...; with some other 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 only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more... | |
| John Walker Holcombe, Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1886 - 658 trang
...world, you are entitled from us to the benediction which Dean Swift bestowed upon the good citizen who " could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before." You have come here from many localities and from many different sections, and were strangers to us... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 trang
...must be looked for among the cultivators of the soil. Was it not Swift who declared that the man who could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserved better of mankind than the whole race of politicians ? Bacon, Cowley, Sir William Temple,... | |
| Hiram A. Cutting - 1886 - 416 trang
...farmers are the founders of civilization." Swift sententiously remarks, 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... | |
| William James Beal - 1887 - 484 trang
...shining hour, By carrying pollen day by day To fertilize each flower." " 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... | |
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