...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 9 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,...

...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 1 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,...

...as a fitting tribute to my disinterested devotion to the interests of the human race. If it ¡a true that ' he who makes two blades of grass grow, where one grew before, is a benefactor to mankind,' in how much higher esteem most I be held, who propose to not only double and...

...compared with the actual valuó of the accommodations thus provided. It has been justly said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of his race. In a how much higher sense can this be said, of those who open up fountains...

...SENATE, our animals while we neglect the improvement of man ? If he ia esteemed a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is not he a greater, who devises means for doubling the productive power of the mind of a people ? And...

...weight of prime hay, where hitherto heath and rushes liad been the only produce. It may be far too much to say, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to his country ; but there can be no doubt that if the idle be...

...stock as cheaper because it costs less money in the original outlay. If Dean Swift was right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is of more service to mankind than he who takes a city, we should be inclined to rank him hardly second...

...Akron paper, he had one hundred and ten acres in celery, cultivated upon shares by twelve tenants. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one .grew before, is a public benefactor, then how great is the extent of Mr. Borst's achievement, who made an unproductive swamp the means of...

...Madame Sontag, and last and littlest, though not least, her sister, Adelina. LOUD DUNDREARY* The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his species, and the author who introduces a new character is a benefactor to the stag^e....

...those in which it is, not only absolutely, but even relatively most abundant. It is said that any one who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor to the human race ; what, then, shall we say of that which enables a thousand men to live...