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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. "
Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National ... - Page 242
1868
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Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society from ...

Agriculture - 1832 - 1030 pages
...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
...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...
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Settlement in the West: Sketches of Rochester

Henry O'Reilly - History - 1838 - 570 pages
...the Legislature, of which he is now a member. If those men may be considered public benefactors who " cause two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before," these remarks may not be considered inappropriate when speaking of the contributors to such a print...
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Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the ..., Volume 29

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...
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The Sleep-rider: Or, The Old Boy in the Omnibus

Edward Sherman Gould - 1843 - 136 pages
...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...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 12

Commerce - 1845 - 596 pages
...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...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 12

1845 - 598 pages
...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...
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The Cultivator, Volume 3

Agriculture - 1846 - 418 pages
...their farms. If I indulged any hopes that the agricultural knowledge conveyed in this address would cause two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, those hopes are dissipated. And to prevent any disappointment, I would assure the audience, that as...
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The Cultivator, a Monthly Journal Devoted to Agriculture, horitcluture ...

The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 pages
...their farms. If I indulged any hopes that the agricultural knowledge conveyed in this address would cause two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, those hopes are dissipated. And to prevent any disappointment, I would assure the audience, that as...
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Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide: A Description of Wisconsin ...

Daniel S. Curtiss - Mississippi River Valley - 1852 - 384 pages
...combined more favorable circumstances, than in the region we are speaking of, for the agriculturist to " cause two blades of grass to grow, where but one grew before ;" and thereby become the best " benefactor of mankind;" and this will science and industry accomplish....
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