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" If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before... "
The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal: Containing Topographical and ... - Page 367
edited by - 1826
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1837 - 604 pages
...ornaments the cheapest. A third advantage is, that they are of all ornaments the most useful. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before has been defined to be a patriot, what honour shall be due to him who fills the uncultured surface...
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The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal, Volume 2

1826 - 414 pages
...multiplication of their nnmbers to the great comfort and well being of those of the human family, who live in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed...all the grass growers in the country. He would, in ail probability, live to see the time, when the consequences of his benevolent undertaking would be...
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The Young Man's Guide

William Andrus Alcott - 1834 - 344 pages
...hereafter. Gaming is an evil, because, in the first place, it is a practice which produces nothing. He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has usually been admitted to be a public benefactor ; for he is a producer. So is he who combines or...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 314 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 328 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 290 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."...
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The Dublin Penny Journal, Volume 1

1832 - 448 pages
...that you see disgracing and pestering their grounds. Now if it be true, as Swift says, that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, surely the converse of the proposition may be stated as of equal verity,...
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The Exhibitions and Fairs of Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic ..., Volumes 1-5

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - 1837 - 986 pages
...broken in the chain which bouhd us in dependence upon foreign countries for articles of necessity. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is thought worthy of notice, equally so should he be who perfects the manufacture of any article, for...
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Standard Novels, Volume 7

1844 - 668 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If be is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while ho produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."...
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Digest of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty's Commissioners of ..., Part 1

Great Britain. Commissioners of Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland - 1847 - 746 pages
...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 employed, and the starving...
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