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... Science - Page 2edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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." —... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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