| Choice literature - 1880 - 816 pages
...scarcely any artificial manure is needed, and in most places none at all. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a greater man than he who wins a battle. What shall we say, then, of those men who turned a waste... | |
| Joseph Hammond - Bible - 1881 - 608 pages
...market-place or the street corners. They only exchanged one department of God's work for another, for " the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a fellow-worker with God." Laliorarc est ora-re. "An honest calling in t'.ie world does not at all... | |
| South Western Immigration Company - Texas - 1881 - 338 pages
...rapid growth, and a plantation of it would soon begin to yield an interesting revenue. " Blessed is he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before !" How much more blessed is he who makes a forest of bois d'arc grow where not a sprig grew before... | |
| 1881 - 780 pages
...or 20 quarts, than for one of more delicate appetite, no matter how handsome. It is said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his race. Is not also he who by skill enables raw material to feed a larger population,... | |
| California - 1880 - 596 pages
...extraordinary exertions and the wonderful practical ability of this one man. If the great man be he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; if, as we are now- beginning to be made to believe, the greatest man be he who most successfully cultivates... | |
| Leather industry and trade - 1898 - 404 pages
...to any important extent." The Australian Leather Journal says in its comments : "Some one said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a greater hero and benefactor of his race than a Caesar or Napoleon. With that aphorism in our mind,... | |
| Edwin Samuel Gaillard - Medicine - 1877 - 334 pages
...very good sentiment for a mellifluous demagogue when ho asserts that the benefactor of his race is he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but if any one will repudiate such metaphorical rubbish and come face to face with a grave truth, he... | |
| 1883 - 994 pages
...tiro wholesome and relishing dishes where only one was possible before is as great a benefactor as ho who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ; but it may bo said without hyperbole that whoever can put us in the way of doing this, or even of... | |
| 1883 - 998 pages
...wholesome and relishing dishes •where only one was possible before is as great a benefactor as he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ; but it may bo said without hyperbole that whoever can put us in the way of doing this, or even of... | |
| India - 1884 - 474 pages
...the weak ; see what internecine dissensions there were. I say that he is a benefactor to his species who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, and I say that the English acquisition of India— or conquest I will call it if you like, as it is called... | |
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