| 1906 - 664 pages
...dismissed the life of a man who was truly a public benefactor. The old saying is true that "he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor." WUat could be a proper measure of the benefaction conferred by a man who made... | |
| Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1897 - 430 pages
...and profits. We often hear the appropriate quotation in connection with rural life, " He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to mankind." How much more satisfactory, and justly so, is the view of a beautiful orchard... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1843 - 652 pages
...98 Chesnut Street. New York : Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway. 1843. IP it be true that " he who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor of his race," Prof. Liebig has richly earned an honourable mention in our pages. The work... | |
| 1897 - 634 pages
...meadow;. This will make the total approximate value of the grass crop $1,029.204,792. The making of "two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before" is the most certain road to wealth and commercial supremacy. But even corn and wheat are the matured fruit... | |
| 1912 - 404 pages
...the privilege of presiding over a meeting at which our distinguished guest is to speak. He who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor. He who with one talent helps one child, one boy, to rise to manhood and usefulness,... | |
| 1909 - 1224 pages
...field for investigation, development and the expenditure of energy? It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor; but who shall not say that he too is a public benefactor who takes the inert,... | |
| New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1887 - 356 pages
...the 22d, but it was to give a practical demonstration of that good old maxim that as " he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is the greatest benefactor of his time ; " so he who makes two dinners to be eaten in one day does more... | |
| 1888 - 504 pages
...claims, And bother us to remember Their many new-fangled names." It is truly said that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor. And I can say the man or woman who makes a flower to blossom anywhere is a friend to... | |
| 1883 - 344 pages
...over all classes, as the people travel to and from their homes. The Echo suggests that if he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of his race; how much more a benefactor is the man who, at the present period of the world's... | |
| 1922 - 664 pages
...sitting at the fireside in the American homes of the plain people. If it be true that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor, then the man who causes two houses to grow where only one was before, should be... | |
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