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| 1808 - 426 pages
...Doctor's detail of experiments is simple and satisfactory, and if the saying be true that lie mail who makes two blades of grass grow, where but one grew before, has' wore real merit than he who conquers•kingdoms, Dr. R. deserves the thanks of liis country-men,... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...ornaments the cheapest. A third advantage is, that they are of all ornaments the most useful. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before has been defined to be a patriot, what honour shall be due to him who fills the uncultured surface... | |
| Worcester County (Mass.) - 1826 - 414 pages
...being of those of the human family, who live in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed ; and if he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where but one grew before, is worth more to mankind, than the whole race of politicians put together, the man, who should effect... | |
| William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...being of those of the human family, who lire in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed ; and if he, who makes two blades of grass grow, •where but one grew before, is worth more to mankind, than the whole race of politicians put together, the man, who should effect... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 290 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1834 - 344 pages
...hereafter. Gaming is an evil, because, in the first place, it is a practice which produces nothing. He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has usually been admitted to be a public benefactor ; for he is a producer. So is he who combines or... | |
| 1844 - 668 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If be is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while ho produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1845 - 352 pages
...by the number of all the citizens. The saying of Adam Smith has been quoted thousands of times, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. But he who doubles the amount of knowledge belonging to a community, is a public... | |
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