 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1817 - 640 lapas
...source of comfort to a larger circle than my narrow income would enable me to reach without it. " The making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before" has ever been my pride, and of course my pleasure. I now pester every agricultural man I meet with to look... | |
 | 1822 - 682 lapas
...praiseworthy than all the labors of mere politicians — the salutary, if not splendid improvement, of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. The mechanic arts, as connected with agriculture and manufactures, have also profited greatly by this... | |
 | 822 lapas
...drainage, however, between the two, is not altogether analogous ; the ouc draining the land for the purpose of " making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," the other the country's coffers for the especial benefit of his own estate. Underground drains, where... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - 746 lapas
...drainage, however, between the two, is not altogether analogous ; the one draining the land for the purpose of " making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," the other the country's coffers for the especial benefit of his own estate. Underground drains, where... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1873 - 674 lapas
...the waste of fertilising matters in sewage, they may do good by lessening ill, and become the means of " making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ? " " God helps those who help themselves." We have advantages for conveyance of materials now that... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1870 - 972 lapas
...measure of that indebtedness, but if oui- farmers would resolutely impose upon themselves the task of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, the whole of this debt, stupendous and overwhelming as it is, would be paid by only four years of this... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1852 - 450 lapas
...praiseworthy than all the labors of mere politicians, — the salutary, if not splendid improvement; of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ! The mechanic arts, as connected with agriculture and manufactures, have also profited greatly by... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1863 - 716 lapas
...esculent so nourishing and so palatable as the oyster, than to perform the well-lauded and laudable feat of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. We hope soon to sow an annual oyster crop as we now sow an annual crop of grain, for the operation... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1864 - 344 lapas
...They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting. The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. Nevertheless, it was a relief to get back to our smooth, but still... | |
 | 694 lapas
...drainage, however, between the two, is not altogether analogous ; the one draining the land for the purpose of " making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," the other the country's coffers for the especial benefit of his own estate. Underground drains, where... | |
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I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting. The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. 
