 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1816 - 744 pages
...and yet might be rendered of considerable value by proper cultivation. It was a wise and true saying, that " he who made two blades of grass to grow where one stood before, benefitted society more, and was a greater friend to mankind, than he who conquered kingdoms."... | |
 | Agriculture - 1873 - 608 pages
...had farmed the land to the best of his ability. His great namesake had said that the man who caused two blades of grass to grow where one grew before was a benefactor to !ni country. He had always borne this saving in mind, and had endeavoured to do His duty to his... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...both to those who give and to those who receive it. It is undeniably true, as Swift said long ago, that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one only grew before, was a greater benefactor to his country than all the heroes and conquerors with whom... | |
 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...success. There can be no doubt that Mr. Webb was a public benefactor in the best sense of the word. If he who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before was pronounced long since a patriot, the man who improved the Southdown so that it became at once a more... | |
 | English essays - 1863 - 868 pages
...success. There can be no doubt that Mr. Webb was a public benefactor in the best sense of the'word. If he who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before was pronounced long since a patriot, tbe man who improved the Southdown so that it became at once a mare... | |
 | Vermont Dairymen's Association - 1891 - 1226 pages
...don't succeed. I think it was one of New York's great men, who said to an audience of agriculturists, that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, was a benefactor of his race; he who can make a cow yield two pounds of butter, that has yielded one pound before, in the... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 pages
...its so-called reserve shall always equal one-fourth of its obligations. It used to be thought true that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one previously grew was a public benefactor, and it is now only about to be found out that the process... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1901 - 908 pages
...entirely ruined. Some means must be devised to meet these conditions. It has been said by some one that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one formerly grew, was a philosopher and a benefactor to his race, and men have kept repeating this saying... | |
 | Maryland - 1911 - 572 pages
...v. :irr, t-.-i J.-n .; rv 27 ORLANDO HARRISON SOME wise philosopher said he was a public benefactor who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before. This has been accepted as a truism, because it represents a great idea — meaning not literally, of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1911 - 564 pages
...there was any literature available which would describe the methods that had been used by the boys in your own southern contest; showing the very widespread...well as a boy on the farm how tired I used to get of the political orators and the other statesmen who came around on the Fourth of July and on other occasions... | |
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... your own southern contest; showing the very widespread interest, the nation wide interest, that has been taken in the work you have been doing. Somebody has said, I believe, that he who made two blades of grass to grow where one grew before was a... 
