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" The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race. "
Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois - Page 310
by Illinois - 1872
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Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...

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...
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Railway Locomotives and Cars, Volume 5

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...
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The Delaware Register and Farmers' Magazine, Volume 2

William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 pages
...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...
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The Sleep-rider: Or, The Old Boy in the Omnibus

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...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 12

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...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 12

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...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 41

1852 - 700 pages
...the universe. To conclude : it has been said, that the greatest benefactor of the human race is he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before : but to our eyes, he seems a greater benefactor — inasmuch as the intellectual are loftier and nobler...
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The Useful Man: A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Hon. Charles Paine, at ...

Ezra Stiles Gannett - Funeral sermons - 1853 - 66 pages
...Australia. Whoever renders human life more desirable is a benefactor of his kind. It has been said, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is worthy to bear this name ; in other words, whoever increases, permanently, the means of sustenance,...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 26

Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1879 - 526 pages
...shall we say of Mr. Hill's farming ? We often hear high compliments paid to a man who by his skill causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before. Now, we believe that Mr. Hill has caused tons of nutritious tame grasses to grow where nothing but...
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DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress ..., Volume 2

Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...citizens When our people learn that the necessity for labor is a blessing rather than a curse ; that ' he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is a greater public benefactor than he who conquers armies ;' and that honor, fame, and fortune may...
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