| 1872 - 598 pages
...populated north-eastern districts especially, is incalculable. Dean Swift's hackneyed remark about the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is surely applicable with as much force to those who develope the food supply of this vast omnivorous... | |
| Horace Mann - 1872 - 268 pages
...SANCTIFIES CIVILIZATION. HO shall contradict the saying of Adam Smith, that " he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before " ? This the scientific man does. Wherever the intelligent and industrious man goes, though it bo to... | |
| 1873 - 648 pages
...bestowed, when the prospective benefit« accruing therefrom promise so largely as they do in this case. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is accounted a public benefactor, doubly honored shall he be who by word or vote or material aid shall... | |
| 1873 - 228 pages
...from the southern border of the State to within 100 miles of the shore of Lake Superior. If he that makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor, how much more he who covers our hillsides with the rich clusters of grapes, our... | |
| 1874 - 588 pages
...line. Quip is above scurrility, and we question if at heart he is any man's enemy. It is said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor — and the father of an innocent laugh may be regarded in the same light. Quip... | |
| 1876 - 242 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... | |
| Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1878 - 50 pages
...fields, to prove the feasibility of this plan 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. 3 2044 102 824 174 ... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1878 - 732 pages
...prosperity of our people. If it be true, as has been well said, that he is to be counted a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, then it may equally well be claimed that they are benefactors who, by their labor, add to the supply,... | |
| Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1871 - 524 pages
...grains, and Dean Swift or somebody else has told us, and every writer since has reiterated it, that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to mankind." • When a large number of individuals combine together for the purpose of... | |
| 232 pages
...is expected eight will attend. 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... | |
| |