 | J. A. - 1858 - 250 דפים
...numbers of ignorant and lazy barbarians would die of hunger. It has been said, that he is truest patriot who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ; if so, we may reckon our patriots by thousands. With this encouraging remark, I now take my leave.... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 דפים
...about the patriotism of the soldier ; but, sir, I trust the time is not far distant when men will see that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a greater patriot than he who lays waste whole districts, and tramples under foot the blessed gifts of... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 580 דפים
...will see the wealth, the health, and the happiness of hie fellow-men augmented. It is an old saying, that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well <jf his country," and the truth of the proverb is not confined to the improved cultivation... | |
 | 1863 - 584 דפים
...will see the wealth, the health, and the happiness of his fellow-men augmented. It is an old saying, that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country," and the truth of the proverb is not Confined to the improved cultivation... | |
 | Henry George O'Shea - 1865 - 718 דפים
...statesman who removes a link of that heavy chain that clogs trade is a greater benefactor to mankind than he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. But, alas ! there are no Peels in Spain ; no Adam Smiths ( Vives is always cited, but !) ; no Cobden... | |
 | James Glass Bertram - 1865 - 578 דפים
...time. I need not say any more on this part of my suhject. If the man is a benefactor to his country who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, what shall be said of the man who introduces to us a new food-fish ? Were we better acquainted with... | |
 | Why - 1866 - 108 דפים
...prostrated, and others bitten off; yet a few days sun and rain would obliterate all traces of the evil. " If he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor," said Deacon Herman when they had been over the field, " I don't know what we can... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 דפים
...crop, when there is so precarious a market for what it yields already ? Who can style him a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, when the result of such a process must be to diminish the chances of remuneration to the laborer, and... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1925 - 390 דפים
...Horticultural Society. Mr. 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... | |
 | 1868 - 392 דפים
...important one, and not less so to the physician than to the statesman and philanthropist. If "the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor," still more is he to be regarded as such, who is in any way instrumental in lengthening... | |
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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. 
