| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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