| 1900 - 708 pages
...is of need to any people. A certain class must live by this alone. As for being a benefactor : one who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before belongs to this class assuredly, and his work in its entirety aims to just such increase both literally... | |
| Royal W Amidon, Edward Constant Seguin - 1880 - 446 pages
...CLAUSEN JR.. GEORGE C. CLAUSEN. Bicycling is a hopeful sign of progress. If that man is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, he should come in for a share of praise who teaches a man to go ten miles as easily and as quickly... | |
| Birdsey Grant Northrup - 1880 - 66 pages
...fields, to prove the feasibility of this plan of reclaiming sterile lands. If one is to bo commended who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more the farmer who makes forests thrive where nothiny now grows. The question is still often... | |
| Maine - 1883 - 614 pages
...good will and encouragement of the State, and he who follows the pioneer and, by science and skill, "makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," is a public benefactor. Both are entitled to the pretection of wise and generous laws. I desire to emphasize... | |
| Maine. Governor - 1883 - 40 pages
...good will and encouragement of the State, and he who follows the pioneer and, by science and skill, "makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," is a public benefactor. Both are entitled to the protection of wise and generous laws. I desire to emphasize... | |
| David Ames Wells - 1885 - 282 pages
...classes alone of the State will not be less than three millions of dollars per annum. Now, if the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor, how much more so is the individual who, by the patient gathering and study of... | |
| Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1885 - 48 pages
...and foreign lands, to prove the feasibility of reclaiming sterile lands. If one is to be commended who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more the farmer who makes forests thrive where nothing now grows. The general influence of... | |
| Hiram A. Cutting - 1886 - 416 pages
...things would fail to please or be appreciated. A Gallileo discovered that the earth moved, but the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before has conferred a greater benefit on mankind. Place a man in the desert of Sahara without food, leave... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1202 pages
...truth is equally applicable to nations as to individuals. He has been said to be a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before; and especially is tnis the ca'se if he not only effects such a result, but if, at the same time, superadds... | |
| American Forestry Association - 1886 - 118 pages
...barrens which shall literally make the desert " bud and blossom as the rose? " If one is to be commended who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more the farmer who makes forests thrive, where nothing now grows ? SEA-COAST PLANTING: ITS... | |
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