 | Hung-chen Wang, Hongzhen Wang, Borming Jahn, Shih-jung Mei - 1997 - 232 páginas
...perspective when he said "...Whoever could make two ears of com or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before would deserve better of...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together..."! I suspect the common reaction of most earth scientists to the issue of... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 páginas
...time must lend themselves to their committal. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835-40 Whoever could 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... | |
 | J. Hill, Heiko C. Becker, P.M. Tigerstedt - 1997 - 302 páginas
...were made to the text as a result of his advice. JH HCB PMAT July 1997 And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades...essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (voyage to Brobdingnag, from Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.) 1 Genetic... | |
 | Edward Baugh - 1998 - 148 páginas
...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...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. Chancellor, such a person stands before you now, namely Carlton Alexander.... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1998 - 308 páginas
...questions (and perhaps some answers) on human societies. CHAPTER 8 ECOLOGY: SPECIES LIVING TOGETHER Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. JONATHAN SWIFT TO GET AN IDEA of the meaning of ecology, the reader is recommended... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1998 - 572 páginas
...his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn, or even two blades of grass grow upon a plot of ground where only one grew before would deserve...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." The praise of Jefferson by the votaries of science was not mistaken, though... | |
 | Daniel Hillel - 1998 - 771 páginas
...for the early spring day 351/58 = 6.1 mm for the late spring day 459/58 = 7.9 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 mankind and do more essential service to his country... | |
 | William Least Heat Moon - 1999 - 644 páginas
...concentrates his mind wonderfully." — Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1777) Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726) The earth belongs in usufruct... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - 2000 - 194 páginas
...understand that his principles were not those of science but of utility: The King "gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two Blades...essential Service to his Country than the whole race of Politicians put together." 409 It is to such practical and simple demands of utility that the Royal... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 páginas
...the Holy Name of God be praised! Samuel Pepys, Diary, 31 October 1666 16 He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians together. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 'Voyage to Brobdingnag' (1726) 17 Where the... | |
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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... 
