| Abraham John Valpy - 1817 - 612 str.
...this part of his plan for its improvement. It would be to deny the long received aphorism, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, does more good to society, than he who conquers kingdoms ! To suffer British agriculture to be overpowered... | |
| 1824 - 706 str.
...inevitably doomed, hereafter, to add one more article to the necessaries of life. It has been held that he is a public benefactor who causes two blades of grass to grow where one grew before. If that character is equally due to him who discovers new fields for the operations... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 510 str.
...sciences in this country, and it will scarcely be deemed misplaced by the general reader. If he, " who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before," is a public benefactor, certainly the person who causes the multiplication of the race of silk worms,... | |
| 1843 - 310 str.
...affords facilities, whereby its production may be increased, is certainly in a fair way to rival him, "who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before." But b.3 increase of quantity is not all ; the capability of getting up a pile of manure in a few days,... | |
| 1844 - 398 str.
...our warmest gratitude. He who plants a tree, in a spot which might else be barren, no less than he who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, lays his country under an obligation. So says an English ex-chancellor ; and if the reader will visit... | |
| 1847 - 1262 str.
...to the natives of Bengal by the excellent missionary of whom we speak. If it be true that " the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species," much more is he entitled to that name who first roots out noxious... | |
| 1847 - 644 str.
...to the natives of Bengal by the excellent missionary of whom we speak. If it be true that " the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species," much more is he entitled to that name who first roots out noxious... | |
| Emma Catherine Embury - 1848 - 224 str.
...guidance, but every step brought her nearer the goal of all her hopes. If he be a benefactor to mankind who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, what gratitude do those deserve who devote all their talents and energies to the task of ameliorating... | |
| Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1854 - 972 str.
...intelligent where previously only one was so, renders far greater servive to mankind than the vaunted benefactor who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one blade grew before. Such increased fertility of the earth's soil might be the consequence of an empirical... | |
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