 ... standing. In the ploughing season, no one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he. If Dean Swift were right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before confers a greater benefit on the state than...  The Atlantic Monthly - Σελίδα 2531859Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - 1889 - 232 σελίδες
...mechanic arts. As an illustration of the dignity of agricultural pursuits, you often hear the quotation that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a public benefactor." The whole paragraph, which may be found in Gulliver's Travels, is still more... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 468 σελίδες
...ploughing season, no one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he. If Dean Swift were right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before confers a greater benefit on the state than he who taketh a city, Mr. B. might exhibit... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 454 σελίδες
...ploughing season, no one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he. If Dean Swift were right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before confers a greater benefit on the state than he who taketh a city, Mr. B. might exhibit... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1890 - 768 σελίδες
...gets as much of solids in the milk for seven cents as he got for eight cents before. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of mankind. We are now able to make a little more milk and a little more butter from each... | |
 | 1890 - 880 σελίδες
...colic of disappointment, for his prayer, like Rory O'Moore's dream, has gone by contraries. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, then the man who can make hay out of thistles, who can make a lawn out of the... | |
 | Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio - 1893 - 174 σελίδες
...must be fungi. Perhaps the coming race of man is forshadowed by this. It is an old saying that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his race, therefore is the man who makes a crop grow where it is impossible for even... | |
 | 1910 - 1102 σελίδες
...lighting system is only one of many inventions by Thomas A. Edison. Indeed, on the principle that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is entitled to public gratitude, Edison may be called the greatest material benefactor of his time. Founded... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 574 σελίδες
...plouphiitii season, nu one has a deeper shan- in the wcll-ltoing of the country than lie. If Dean Swift were right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew teforo confers a greater benefit on the state than he who taketh a city, Mr. B. might exhibit... | |
 | 1910 - 1086 σελίδες
...resides, and will become an object lesson to his neighbors to the extent that we lead, others follow. He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor. The CHAIRMAN: You have heard the report. What action will you take upon it? MIÎ.... | |
 | James Cox - 1895 - 420 σελίδες
...million acres were quickly taken by 30,000 farmers. The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the... | |
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