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The Chicago Medical Journal - Page 280
1868
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An essay on tropical agriculture

Philip Lovell Phillips - 1845 - 126 pages
...April 10, 1845. AN ESSAY ON TROPICAL CULTIVATION. IF it be true, as is generally admitted, that the man who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before is a benefactor to mankind, then surely it must be a legitimate object of ambition to increase the...
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Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and All Useful Discoveries and ..., Volume 18

Charles Mason Hovey - 1852 - 596 pages
...superior productions, adding to the luxuries of our tables, and to the wealth of the country. If " he who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before," is a " public benefactor," he certainly is who loads our tables with the delicious Seckel in place...
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Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Volume 50, Part 1895

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1896 - 936 pages
...cereal, has had a most profound effect upon the civilization of the world. It is not merely the man who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before that is a benefactor to his race, but the man who, by any means, produces twice the food on a given...
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The Medical circular [afterw.] The London medical press & circular ..., Volume 2

1868 - 596 pages
...give to their pianos, there would be more harmony in their houses if less music. The millennium cannot come, of course, until sin ceases in the world, but...two blades of grass to grow where one grew before.' " Muzzling Dogs. ТПЕ protest raised on behalf of our canine friends is a ust one. As a dog perspires...
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Journal: Appendix. Reports

California. Legislature - 1870 - 544 pages
...industry on this coast, and encourage, as far as possible, the pioneers now enlisted. Dean Swift says, "he who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, is a benefactor," and so may and will you be hailed in giving new industries and sources of wealth,...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

1872 - 590 pages
...country is to be benefited by the result which is pointed out. If that man is a blessing to his country who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, then surely 500 men who produce nothing, but who are fed by the labour of others, must be the very...
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Annual Report, Volume 26

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1872 - 660 pages
...agencies in promoting the temporal happiness of mankind. It has been said that he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before. Certainly iu a much higher sense are they benefactors, who fill our houses and gardens with beautiful...
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The Marlburian

Marlborough coll - 1874 - 864 pages
...and in this penny-roll there may be phosphoric acid from the bones of his Chief Baker. Yet if the man who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before is to be regarded as a great benefactor of his race, Osirip, having that preeions jewel the king'8...
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Some Observations Upon the Civilization of the Western Barbarians ...

John B. Swasey - 1876 - 326 pages
...have heard one of these learned professors [pho-phesti] say wisely, " He is a benefactor of the race who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before ; " " but," he added, " he is a greater who teaches mankind how to do this." In this way, wishing to...
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Some Observations Upon the Civilization of the Western Barbarians ...

John B. Swasey - 1876 - 322 pages
...have heard one of these learned professors [pho-phesti] say wisely, " He is a benefactor of the race who makes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before ; " " but," he added, " he is a greater who teaches mankind how to do this." In this way, wishing to...
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