 | Daniel Hillel - 1998 - 771 pages
...mm for the summer day Whoever 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...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745 21. IRRIGATION AND WATER-USE EFFICIENCY INTRODUCTION Water constitutes the... | |
 | William Least Heat Moon - 1999 - 644 pages
...Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1777) Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...country than the whole race of politicians put together. — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) The earth belongs in usufruct to the living. — Thomas... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...Brobdingnag] 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,...than the whole race of politicians put together." . 346 • 169 The botanist refers . . . than an eastern one!: The source for this paragraph is Thoreau's... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - 2000 - 194 pages
...King "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;...than the whole race of Politicians put together." 409 It is to such practical and simple demands of utility that the Royal Society could not live up... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...1666 16 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,...to his country than the whole race of politicians together. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 'Voyage to Brobdingnag' (1726) 17 Where the heart was... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...of Brobdingnag memorably stated 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;...than the whole Race of Politicians put together'. 56 As well as thus serving political economy, agricultural improvement embodied the new relation between... | |
 | C. L. Hedley - 2001 - 360 pages
...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,...country than the whole race of politicians put together. Gulliver's Travels, 'A Voyage to Brobdingnag', ch. 7 (1726) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...of Brobdingnag memorably stated 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;...his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together'.56 As well as thus serving political economy, agricultural improvement embodied the new relation... | |
 | John C. Culver, John Hyde - 2000 - 702 pages
..."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,...his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."29 Or as Wallace himself put it near the end of his oral history, "Jesus took on himself... | |
 | 2001 - 254 pages
...stated by Jonathan Swift7 who wrote, "Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,...essential service to his country, than the whole race of 7.. 'Gulliver's Travels." politicians put together." In practical terms, it means careful stewardship... | |
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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... 
