 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1855 - 750 стор.
...— no competitors have yet appeared to claim it* Now, if he is worthy of being called a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, then should he be called a good economist, to say the least, who causes to grow three thousand white... | |
 | 1856 - 594 стор.
...teacher as a public benefactor. If it be true that the man who plants a tree, or builds a house, or makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor, — surely, most surely, must he be accounted one, who, as another has expressed it,... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1858 - 904 стор.
...deficient elements until the " wilderness may be made to blossom as the rose." It has been said, that, he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his race, and this the chemist-farmer can do until the limit of productiveness is reached.... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1858 - 908 стор.
...deficient elements until the " wilderness may be made to blossom as the rose." It has been said, that, he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his race, and this the chemist-farmer can do until the limit of productiveness is reached.... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1859 - 806 стор.
...has formed no inconsiderable portion of the commerce of the world. It has been well remarked, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. Not less so is he who increases, by improvement in machinery, or otherwise, the... | |
 | 1860 - 682 стор.
...end of the continent to the other. All this results from useful, mechanical inventions. " That man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor;" and he who invents an instrument which will do the work of human hands, is also a benefactor.... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 стор.
...of the sky, that is not comprehended, in it. It was truly said, by a wise man, of other years, that he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where but one grew, before, is a great public benefactor. What must it be, to reclaim the Pontine marshes, by skilful and successful... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1861 - 314 стор.
...of the multitudes ? Who 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... | |
 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - 1865 - 614 стор.
...and the accompanying volumes ; for which I am greatly obliged to you. If, as Adam Smith said, a man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before be a "public benefactor," of what honor is he worthy who diffuses ideas regarding health and life among... | |
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