 | William Andrus Alcott - 1834 - 344 pages
...dollar, or even one cent to the original stock ? I have already admitted, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his country ; but these men have not done so much as that. A few draw prizes, it has been admitted.... | |
 | 1837 - 752 pages
...intelligence, or length of service. It has been said, and truly said, that a man who can make two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is a benefactor to the human r»ce. This amounts to a recognition of the aristocracy of labour, but »bo, among our statesmen,... | |
 | 1839
...certain effect of good machinery, is an increase of production. It is said, that he that makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his race. la not he who can produce cloth for five sulta of clothes, where only one was produced before,... | |
 | --- Levey - 1846 - 418 pages
...make it fructify — they circulate it at home. It has been said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his country ; but the man who circulates two shillings in his native land where only one circulated... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1925 - 390 pages
...Kellogg. CHERRIES AND CURRANTS— A WINNING PAIR MS KELLOGG, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to the human race, and he who can get two crops of fruit from the same ground is more of a benefactor... | |
 | John Richard Digby Beste - 1870 - 442 pages
...Deserters. — The gaol-birds. — Prospects of Italy. IT is said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to mankind. What then do you, reader, think of one who made grass to grow on the land where olives, vines, and... | |
 | John Yeats - 1870 - 486 pages
...to change the face of our social and industrial life. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species. The truth of this statement is easily proved. Take the single example of wheat, and imagine... | |
 | mrs. William Paterson - 1872 - 90 pages
...amount of expense the cultivator exposes himself to. It has been said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his country ; but Paterson has done more than that. Regardless of cost, at the almost ruinous loss... | |
 | Francis Gould Smith - 1877 - 104 pages
...existence, at least in the sense of mental enjoyments. It has been said of old, that he who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his fellow-men. Though Corinth produced what may be called Birmingham and Sheffield wares, and Athens... | |
 | John Yeats - 1878 - 460 pages
...to change the face of our social and industrial life. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species. The truth of this statement is easily proved. Take the single example of wheat, and imagine... | |
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It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species. 
