... 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 - Seite 2531859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1827 - 496 Seiten
...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 9 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,... | |
| 1827 - 492 Seiten
...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 1 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1839 - 1066 Seiten
...compared with the actual valuó of the accommodations thus provided. It has been justly said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of his race. In a how much higher sense can this be said, of those who open up fountains... | |
| Vermont gen. assembly, senate - 1845 - 390 Seiten
...SENATE, our animals while we neglect the improvement of man ? If he ia esteemed a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is not he a greater, who devises means for doubling the productive power of the mind of a people ? And... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 Seiten
...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... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1896 - 936 Seiten
...Akron paper, he had one hundred and ten acres in celery, cultivated upon shares by twelve tenants. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one .grew before, is a public benefactor, then how great is the extent of Mr. Borst's achievement, who made an unproductive... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 Seiten
...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 - 1859 - 226 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1863 - 844 Seiten
...Madame Sontag, and last and littlest, though not least, her sister, Adelina. LOUD DUNDREARY* The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his species, and the author who introduces a new character is a benefactor to the stag^e.... | |
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