 | Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 342 pages
...a Spot of Ground wherb only one grew before, would deferve better of Mankind, and do more eflential Service to his Country than the whole Race of Politicians put together. • .... r..•". : *. .» THE Learning of this People is very defective, confifting only in Morality,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pages
...Spot of Ground where only one grew before,, would deferve better of Mankind, and do more effential Service to his Country, than the -whole Race of Politicians put together. The Learning of this People is very defective, confiding only in Morality, Hiftory, Poetry, and Mathematics,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pages
...a Spot of Ground where only one grew before ; would deferve better of Mankind, and do more efiemial Service to his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together. THE Learning of this People is very defective -, confiding only in Morality, Hiftory, Poetry and Mathematicks;... | |
 | Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1755 - 46 pages
...Spot of Ground where only one grew before, will " dcferve better of Mankind, and do more eflential Service to his " Country than the whole Race of Politicians put together." Hoc opus, hoe fadiutn Farm prapercmUs Si Patria: vylumat, Ji nob'u invert tori, LONDON: > 3 Ov THE... | |
 | John Arbuthnot - 1770 - 276 pages
...Spot of Ground, where only One grew before, would deferve better of Mankind, and do more effectual Service to his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together." Thefe, and feveral other PafTages in this Rook difcover Abundance of the Spirit and good Senfe of the... | |
 | John Tuke, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1800 - 416 pages
...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 race of politicians put together." LONDON: ; PRINTED BY B.MCM1LLAN, BO W-STREET, COVENT-OARDEN, PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...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 race of politicians put together. The learning of this people is very defective : consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematicks,... | |
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...species; but only, that he ' deserved ' better of mankind, and did more essential service to his coun' try than the whole race of politicians put together,'...maintaining that deference unshaken through every * Dr Shuttleworth's ' blades of corn,' &c. cannot be said to retain much more of the Dean's accuracy... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...ground where only one L a grew 148 SWIFTIANA. grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." CLII. NEW SYSTEMS OF NATURE. New systems of nature are but new fashions, which will vary in every age;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 336 pages
...grass, 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 race of politicians put together.' Possessed with this idea, I have Ion" bent my thoughts and study towards those inquiries which conduce... | |
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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 race... 
