 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 912
...Practice, SUfFOKT OF THE INTERESTS OF AGRICULTURE. EDMUND RUFFIIf, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. And be cave it for his opinion, " that whoever could make 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 bis country,... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 830
...and comfort, connect our interest, and even our existence with theirs." The opinion, "that whosoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and would do more essential service to... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...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,... | |
 | 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...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,...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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...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,... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...gentleman, commemorated in the Voyage to Brobdignag, when unravelling his everlasting court intrigues, — " He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make...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,... | |
 | Samuel Sands - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...interest of $100 per acre. The remark of Swift, is peculiarly applicable to Col. CaBron: " Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankiod, and does more essential service to his country, than... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...affairs of civil government. " He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds — to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to...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,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds—to common sense and reason, to j ustice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and...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,... | |
 | 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...following, from Gulliver's ' Voyage to Brobdingnag/ part ii. chap. vi. , point in any way to it?— " And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could...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 bis country,... | |
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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... 
