 | 1849 - 618 pagini
...live in the hearts of the yeomanry of Cornwall for generations to come. We are told the man who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country. Gentlemen, if thU doctrine be correct, I will leave... | |
 | Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society - 1850 - 546 pagini
...economise labor more than we do, we shall never meet with success. It is an old adage that, "the man who causes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow, where only one grew before, is a public benefactor ;" and if ever a field was open for acquiring suoh a reputation,... | |
 | 1858 - 314 pagini
...spread at fitting times over the area of every run. " If the man deserves well of his country, who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before/' how much better will he merit who causes three to spring up where none were... | |
 | John Smith Athelstane Carnota (Conde da) - 1880 - 504 pagini
...of the grant voted to him by the Chambers. Thither he had retired with the pleasing hope of causing "two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before ;*" a work more meritorious, says an old authority, than that performed by the... | |
 | James Robinson Newhall - 1880 - 526 pagini
...excellence the Ncwhall blood imparted to its new connections. Dean Swift said that a man who caused two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, was more worthy of praise than the whole brood of politicians; or something like... | |
 | 1894 - 832 pagini
...continued laborious work on the part of iodustrious farinerj. It was Swift who said : "Whoever makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to hi s country than... | |
 | Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association - 1909 - 270 pagini
...Burbank, Davenport, Holden and our own beloved Moore ! For we agree with Dean Swift "That whoever makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of his generation and do more essential service to posterity,... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - 1903 - 1392 pagini
...concentrate, as far as we can, our attention upon the improvement of our country by attempting to make " two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before." We should endeavour to settle the people upon the land rather than unnecessarily... | |
 | William Alexander Cocke - 1908 - 562 pagini
...any new path when he performed that little stunt.—Bryan's Commoner, August 2, IQ07. Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pagini
...benignity. — lard John Russell. Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. — Virgil. Whoever makes with patience. — Bruyère. He surely only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than... | |
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Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. 
