 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 838 pages
...cultivator of the soil. Swift, with his fine satire, made the King of Brobdingnag express to Gulliver the 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... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1862 - 916 pages
...did not intend, give new and lasting significance to the opinion of the fabled king of Brobdignag, " 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...determination of civil and. criminal causes ; 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,,... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...determination of civil and criminal causes ; 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em. And so proceed ad inftnitum. Poetry, a Rhapsody. 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - Castaways - 1865 - 414 pages
...gunpowder. *' I have perused many of their books, especially those on history and morality.'' — Page 161. 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... | |
 | Fennings Taylor, William Notman - Biography - 1867 - 614 pages
...as they who read The Word, and doubt the greater Work." THE HONORABLE ADAM FERGUSSON, OF WOODHILL. " And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn and two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground ivhere only one grew before, would deserve better... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs. — PLUTARCH. Theseits. 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they -would not bear the charge of collecting. He gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of his mankind, and do more essential service... | |
 | United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue, 1866-1870 - Finance, Public - 1870 - 170 pages
...equality of burdens and benefits is violated. In Gulliver's Voyage to Brobdingnag occurs this passage: "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... | |
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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... 
