 | Edward Step - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...possessions. Dean Swift, in his " Travels of Gulliver," makes one of his characters hold 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...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, and... | |
 | 1881
...The king, you will remember, in his conversation with Gulliver, gave it as his deliberate 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 942
...your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Cadeniu and Vanasa. 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, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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, and... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...; 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, and... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...return an examination of the Arkansas Vallev. XX THE ARKANSAS VALLEY. 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...; 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, and... | |
 | Hiram A. Cutting - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...farmers are the founders of civilization." Swift sententiously remarks, 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... 
