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" He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two. "
Transactions and Proceedings: 1847-51 - Page 169
by Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1896
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, 1. köide

1827 - 496 lehte
...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,...
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, 1. köide

1827 - 492 lehte
...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,...
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, 1. köide

1831 - 336 lehte
...something to the capital stock of human enjoyment, we may well indulge in self-congratulation. It has been said, that he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where one only grew before, deserves to be reckoned among die benefactors of mankind. And it has been justly...
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, 1. köide

1831 - 336 lehte
...something to the capital stock of human enjoyment, we may well indulge in self-congratulation. It has been said, that he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where one only grew before, deserves to be reckoned among the benefactors of mankind. And it has been justly...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, 60. köide

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1862 - 628 lehte
...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 treble the...
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Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education, 1–4. köide

Henry Barnard - 1839 - 1066 lehte
...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 of living water...
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The Illustrated London Almanack

1868 - 100 lehte
...other requirements, the better, and hence the obvious importance of a new article of diet. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his species. Sir Walter Raleigh, who introduced the potato into England, might certainly lay claim...
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Vermont gen. assembly, senate - 1845 - 390 lehte
...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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, 4. köide

1859 - 802 lehte
...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...
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Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 50. köide,1895. osa

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1896 - 936 lehte
...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...
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