 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...add 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 said; because he has... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...add 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 said; because he has... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...to add something to the capital stock of human enjoyment, we may well indulge in selfcongratulation. It has been said, that he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, deserves to be reckoned among the benefactors of mankind. And it has been justly... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...good orchard on their farms; and few of our tables are supplied with the choicest varieties of fruit. It has been said that he, who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well of hie country. It may be as truly said of him who plants a good... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - Geology - 1842 - 388 pages
...Newfoundlaud have been, not only of the food of nature, but of the food of life. He, as has been already said, who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before, deserves well of the commonwealth ; but he who plants twenty churches and twenty schools where the... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1868 - 100 pages
...consistent with 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,... | |
 | Samuel Watkins Eager - Orange County (N.Y.) - 1847 - 672 pages
...which admfnisterto our comfort and convenience, as we are to elevate-tiia' standard of our morals. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where there was but one before, deserves more just praise than if he had built a city. This illustrates our... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...attempts to reclaim considerable portions of the waste, I am free to admit. All honour to the cultivator " who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before," — and if it should really come to a question of the production of a sufficient quantity of food for... | |
 | John Jay Williams - Natural history - 1852 - 388 pages
...grown, and withered, and decayed, and grown again, as if in mockery of the boasted progress of man. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. What shall we say of those who will open to the commerce... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 774 pages
...concern. I regard the Department under your supervision as one of the most important in the Government. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before confers more benefit on mankind than the whole race of politicians... | |
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If that man is deserving of the gratitude of his country ' who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before, 
