 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 4561900Full view - About this book
 | John H. Cartwright, Brian Baker - 2005 - 471 pages
...to end here is Swift's voice of the king of the Brobdingnags in Gulliver's second journey : And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (Part II, Chap vii, p. 113) It is too difficult to resist the observation that in the centuries that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 2012 - 288 pages
...(Government of Kenya, 1962, p1), to quote Gulliver's report of the views of the King of Brobdignag: And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two...country than the whole race of politicians put together (Swift, 1 726, Chapter 7). For the issues are less simple: they include whether, with the same resources,... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2009 - 304 pages
...their old boy network. Certainly, almost any American today would find some truth in the observation that "whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...than the whole race of politicians put together." 1 There are many tiny threads, some invisible, all surprisingly strong, that bind modern Gullivers.... | |
 | L. C. A. Knowles, Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles, Charles Matthew Knowles - 2005 - 648 pages
...achieved their greatest triumph. If His Majesty of Brobdingnag expressed a sound opinion when he declared that " whoever could make two ears of corn, or two...than the whole race of politicians put together," l then Dr. Charles Saunders, of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa, deserves to rank as one of... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2005 - 554 pages
...their old boy network. Certainly, almost any American today would find some truth in the observation that "whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...his country than the whole race of politicians put together."1 There are many tiny threads, some invisible, all surprisingly strong, that bind modern... | |
 | Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams - 2005 - 218 pages
...the 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...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 - 2006 - 830 pages
..."Statistical Yearbook of China." Hong Kong, 1981. AMMONIA, NITRIC ACID AND THEIR DERIVATIVES . . . whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades...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... | |
 | Harvey Blatt - 2006 - 272 pages
...waste that is incinerated will probably grow. Soil, Crops, and Food Whoever could make two ears of corn to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Food ranks with... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 460 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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