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" It is a record of the saving of over one hundred lives per year from small-pox, four hundred lives per year saved from death by scarlet fever, and nearly six hundred lives per year saved from death by diphtheria — an aggregate of eleven hundred lives... "
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 82-83

William Cobbett - 1833 - 850 pages
...land, but a small portion " on the poorest. It had been observed " by ancient philosophers that he who " made two blades of grass grow where " only one grew before was entitled to " the best thanks of the country. As a " society, then, he expressed a hope " that...
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Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 82

1833 - 426 pages
...land, but a small portion " on the poorest. It had been observed " by ancient philosophers that he who " made two blades of grass grow where " only one grew before was entitled .to " the best thanks of the country. As a " society, then, he expressed a hope " that...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1843 - 420 pages
...progressive tendencies of our very nature to which we have before alluded. It has been said that he, who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a great benefactor of his race ; the same may be said of him, through whose direct or indirect agency...
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Notes and Queries

1895 - 666 pages
...invention ? I had never seen it before ; and it is a public benefactor (in contrary resemblance to the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before), in that it takes the place of the two words previously necessary. CSH "HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION." —...
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The British Journal of Photography, Volume 63

William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, J. Traill Taylor, William Blanchard Bolton, Thomas Bedding - 1916 - 918 pages
...faddist, and very few realised the enormous financial benefit that would result if it were realised. If the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before deserved well of his country, what shall we say of a man who makes his countrymen — nay, more than...
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Life and Correspondence of James Iredell: One of the Associate ..., Volume 1

Griffith John McRee - 1857 - 602 pages
...to add one to the few observations which may be made upon an unimportant character, viz., that I had made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before — a circumstance among some nations of no small honor and renown. I wish you all happiness, and am, with...
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The New England Farmer, Volume 14

1862 - 588 pages
...a tendency to improve the land in spite of close feeding. Mr. FEARING, of Hingham, observed that if the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before was a benefactor, so was he who advanced sheep husbandry. He would look at the subject in a moral point...
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 62

1872 - 598 pages
...enter into a discussion on the breeding of cattle in the presence of so many eminent breeders, but as the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before did good to his country, so did he who made two bullocks grow instead of one, or one of better quality....
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The Farmer's Magazine

1862 - 612 pages
...considered that 80 much of the land of tbis country was in pasture, and remembered the fact that " the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, wu a benefactor to his country," it behoved all oi them to see whether they were making the best use...
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Advertiser Notes and Queries, Volumes 1-2

1882 - 510 pages
...Minister, for he thought that he could '• lick him in five minutes.'' Dean Swift truly said th»t he who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before was a benefactor to his race ; but what remains of benefit of all this mnsonlar prowess and these popular...
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