 | H. B. Proctor - 1882 - 92 páginas
...essential " service to his country," as if he were to devote his labour to the tilling of the soil, and " make two ears of " corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where " only one grew before." With this end in view, while I regret that the subject has not been... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1882 - 1374 páginas
...to remind you of what Swift says, — the old thing that you have heard so many times. He gave it as his opinion, that " whoever would make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more... | |
 | William Dorsheimer - 1884 - 590 páginas
...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 to grow...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... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 páginas
...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 service to his country, than... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1905 - 328 páginas
...than any other one agency." — GC CBEELMAN, President Ontario Agricultural College. "He who maketh 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 does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 páginas
...FOE (1603-1731) Friends arc good, — good, if well chosen. JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of... | |
 | 1888 - 612 páginas
...and twelve years old are already thirty feet high and eight to ten inches in diameter. If he who made two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before has done more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together, what... | |
 | Augustine Jones - 1892 - 52 páginas
...— Arago. the trite words of Swift, without detracting from a noble profession, " that whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, will deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of... | |
 | Alexander Brown - 1895 - 738 páginas
...knowledge of them and of their acts must be very unequal. It has been said that "the man who makes two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together." Yet no class is more apt... | |
 | Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston - 1896 - 100 páginas
...Jonathan Swift's saying may now well be recalled : "And he gave for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow on a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential... | |
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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, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole... 
