| Agriculture - 1830 - 780 pages
...so U the progress of improvement, when skill and attention are applied to cultivation. It has bevn said, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow, where only one was produced before, is a patriot to his country. Such is the happy result of horticulture... | |
| Gardening - 1830 - 802 pages
...so is the progress of improvement, when skill and attention are applied to cultivation. It has been said, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow, where only one was produced before, is a patriot to his country'. Such is the happy result of horticulture... | |
| Agriculture - 1832 - 1030 pages
...Indeed, suffer this pursuit to languish, and the wheel of national industry must cease to revolve. If he, who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor ; he, surely, who improves the quality of agricultural products ; the form and... | |
| Railroad engineering - 1836 - 848 pages
...purposes of intellectual improvement, or to innocent social enjoyment, must be a blessing. If the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is to be pronounced л public benefactor, certainly he is not less so, who will cause four to grow with... | |
| William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 pages
...gaining them will be the same as if they were of much greater magnitude. It is a just and true saying, that, "he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, deserves more praise from his country, than the man who has conquered a kingdom." The husbandman's... | |
| New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...be able to form a more definite estimate of its significance. We shall perceive that the making of two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is equivalent to increasing the annual income of New York by the sum of §80,000,000, the annual income... | |
| Edward Sherman Gould - 1843 - 136 pages
...omnibus-atmosphere to an atmosphere of mysterious magnetic sympathies. I ". motto." ADAM SMITH says, that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country. Adam is right. But he would have come quite as near the mark had he pushed... | |
| Commerce - 1845 - 596 pages
...of statistics essential to the business man and the scholar, as well as the legislator. If " the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before" is worthy of enduring remembrance, the successful advocate of the American Statistical Bureau cannot and... | |
| 1845 - 598 pages
...of statistics essential to (ho husiness man and the scholar, as well as the legislator. If " the mau who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before" is worthy of enduring remembrance, the successful advocate of the American Statistical Bureau cannot and... | |
| 1853 - 730 pages
...the following fact ; and if you deem it worth inserting in our Magazine I shall be glad. It has beea said, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where onlyone grew before, is a benefactor to society. To do this now in England, in its day of Free Trade,... | |
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