| H. Stonehewer Cooper - 1882 - 490 lapas
...poacher upon nature's preserves. I call that man a producer who, by his personal exertion and industry, causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, or who replaces rank grasses by fields of waving wheat. It is to produce in this sense that I should... | |
| James Buchanan Eads - 1884 - 694 lapas
...embarrass her wealth-creating powers, and which limit the grand sphere of American merchants. It hath been said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one existed, is a public benefactor; but I tell you here that he who removes the barriers that... | |
| Patrick Hamilton - 1884 - 474 lapas
...mischief will be at an end. CHAPTER XII. FOR THE HOMELESS. " Fair clime! where every season smiles." BT has been said that he who causes two blades of grass to spring up where only one grew before is greater than he who taketh a city. Among all nations the farmer's... | |
| 1885 - 92 lapas
...of a single individual has increased the intellectual assets of all. "Whoever," it has been said, " causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to the world." Whoever causes a single ray of intelligence to shine where before was the gloom of ignorance... | |
| 1885 - 290 lapas
...it might be deemed an improvement; and, in the converse sense of the saying that " A man who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to mankind," he would say that a " man who expresses two words or two letters by one sign is a benefactor... | |
| California. Legislature - 1885 - 905 lapas
...We shall be pleased to work a larger lot and test it thoroughly. Some one has said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor. Those who open up new industries, as you are doing, deserve the highest praise.... | |
| Mary Matilda Davidson - 1885 - 228 lapas
...Government lias established a filature. EDITORIAL IN WICHITA BEACON, OCTOBER, 1882. |2 MAN who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is called a benefactor to his race, but a man or woman who will introduce a new, profitable, and useful... | |
| 1886 - 484 lapas
...souls are with the saints I trust," and whose trees remain to gladden the eyes of posterity. If the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of his species, how much greater is the debt of gratitude we owe to the man who gives even one beautiful oak... | |
| 1886 - 450 lapas
...of hay, when "'SHer laud subject to droughts often disappoints the owners in the quantity produced. It has been said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one had grown is a public benefactor, and we may safely conclude that the man who reclaims a swamp... | |
| Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 624 lapas
...to whom the State of Maine owes a debt of gratitude. If he is a benefactor to the whole human race "who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before," what can we say of a company of men through whose efforts our hill-sides have blossomed as the rose,... | |
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