 | Charles Dana Wilber - History - 1881 - 520 pages
...distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of gra«s; and when the... | |
 | Horatio King - Washington (D.C.) - 1881 - 58 pages
...Starting with the assertion that next in importance to the Divine profusion of water, light, and air, which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass, in which he included, as botany allows, the gigantic bamboo and sugar-cane, rice, maize, and all the... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - History - 1882 - 558 pages
...prairies: ' ' Next in importance to the Divine profusion of water, light and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated by tropical heats and vapors to the gigantic cane congested with its saccharine secretion,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 454 pages
...distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...and Euphrates. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated by tropical heats and vapors to the gigantic cane congested with its saccharine secretion,... | |
 | John James Ingalls - United States - 1902 - 552 pages
...and Euphrates. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated by tropical heats and vapors to the gigantic cane congested with its saccharine secretion,... | |
 | Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 410 pages
...Five Tribes when he conceived this prose poem : " Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air — those three physical facts which...beneficence of grass. Lying in the sunshine among buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic... | |
 | Wisconsin. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1909 - 586 pages
...full of the most profound truth. It began thus : "Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three physical facts which render...existence possible, may be reckoned the universal abundance of grass. These words, as I say, are full of sentiment, but they also contain that most important... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 252 pages
...and Euphrates. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Ex103 aggerated by tropical heats and vapors to the gigantic cane congested with its saccharine secretion,... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1910 - 1702 pages
...full of the most profound truth. It began thus: "Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three physical facts which render...existence possible, may be reckoned the universal abundance of grass. These words, as I say, are full of sentiment, but they also contain that most important... | |
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Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the... 
