 | Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 páginas
...healthy dose of apprehension.' Henry Lang, farmer and countryman tz^=l And he gave it of his opinion, that 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... | |
 | Peter Brandt - 2003 - 189 páginas
...permission; © 2001 American Society of Plant Physiologists, Plant Physiol, May 2001, Vol. 126, pp. 8-15 "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... | |
 | 2004 - 266 páginas
...roots. leaves. fruits and flowers could be identified and grown as food. And he gave it for his opinion. 'that whoever could make two ears of corn. or two...essential service to his country. than the whole race of politicians put together'. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. 1726 Ancient times Prehistoric horticulture... | |
 | Alfred L. Castle - 2004 - 372 páginas
...Press Order Department 2840 Kolowalu Street Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 To Mary Tenney Castle M htK-vrr could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass,...of ground where only one grew before, would deserve more of mankind, and do im1nessential service to his country, than the whole race ul politicians put... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 2012 - 288 páginas
...to quote Gulliver's report of the views of the King of Brobdignag: 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 (Swift, 1 726, Chapter 7). For the issues are less simple: they include whether,... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2009 - 304 páginas
...their old boy network. Certainly, almost any American today would find some truth in the observation that "whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." 1 There are many tiny threads, some invisible, all surprisingly strong,... | |
 | L. C. A. Knowles, Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles, Charles Matthew Knowles - 2005 - 658 páginas
...achieved their greatest triumph. If His Majesty of Brobdingnag expressed a sound opinion when he declared that " whoever could make two ears of corn, or two...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together," l then Dr. Charles Saunders, of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa,... | |
 | Martin B. B. Hocking - 2006 - 830 páginas
..."Statistical Yearbook of China." Hong Kong, 1981. AMMONIA, NITRIC ACID AND THEIR DERIVATIVES . . . whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades...to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew hefore, would . . . do more essential service to this country, than the whole race of politicians put... | |
 | Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams - 2005 - 244 páginas
...the eighteenth century that the essential servant of his country and of mankind would be the man who "could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass...upon a spot of ground where only one grew before", and there was often a regional identification (the county was seen as an important unit) of the waste... | |
 | Harvey Blatt - 2006 - 308 páginas
...waste that is incinerated will probably grow. Soil, Crops, and Food Whoever could make two ears of corn to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Food ranks with... | |
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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... 
