...there is truth in the doctrine of him who was not wont to write genially or kindly, that " he who can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together/' let us not arrogate...

...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...than the whole race of politicians put together." The learning of this people is very defective ; consisting only of morality, history, poetry, and mathematics,...

...improvement, and give a retrospective application to the sentiment of Dean Swift, that " Whoever has made two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and has done more essential service to his country, than the whole race...

...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,...country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Gullicer's Tracels. * As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps, parts of the world which they...

...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...blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than...

...for her harshness. Ham lived many years, and Broadfoot was not the only Indian who felt his revenge. Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of grdund, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service...

...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 of mankind...to his country than the whole race of politicians together." THE words extracted from Gulliver's travels, with which we have prefaced this sketch, conclusively...

...cheer for Gulliver. Let us show our appreciation of his opinions by directly or indirectly persuading " two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before." The late Honorable Adam Fergusson, besides being a Scotch gentleman, a racy whig and a genial friend,...

...vanity. Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service...country than the whole race of politicians put together. False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves ordinary...

...epigraph to that scrapbook is a sentence from that most shrewd observer of mankind, Jonathan Swift: Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Chancellor, such a person stands before you now, namely Carlton Alexander. His success with the firm...