| 1888 - 598 páginas
...and manly, yet so genial and kinclly, that even those he fought loved him. It is a trite saying that "He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of his race," but we hold that he who tries to make one more grow, even if he fails... | |
| Associations of gas engineers and managers, United Kingdom - 1888 - 372 páginas
...his grasp — urged on, perhaps, by remembering the old adage, that that man is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. With regard to coke, it is well known that in times of trade depression, such as we have passed through... | |
| 1889 - 1226 páginas
...ours, or we will improve upon them to such an extent that they may be willing to accept our ideas. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, is he not doubly entitled to the plaudits of the world who abridges distance,... | |
| Missouri. State Horticultural Society - 1890 - 482 páginas
...members for the loss from work of the few pleasant hours spent in such societies. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to the human race. Is not he a benefactor to the human race who makes two fruit trees... | |
| Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1890 - 238 páginas
...been mainly depended upon for the business centering in Fair Haven. It has been justly said that " he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor." The State may well honor the men who have made the barren waste under the... | |
| Alfred Henderson - 1890 - 58 páginas
...of which he never wearied, with the consciousness which for him had a special significance, " that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his race;" and then at last to die, as he always hoped he might die, "in harness,"... | |
| Jerome Walker - 1890 - 444 páginas
...utilizing materials which are readily available, deserves something of the credit belonging to one who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." — Food in its Relations to Persona! and Pubhc Health, a paper read at the annual meeting of the American... | |
| Horace Mann - 1891 - 604 páginas
...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... | |
| Horace Mann - 1891 - 608 páginas
...and the accompanying volumes ; for which I am greatly obliged to you. If, as Adam Smith said, a man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before be a "public benefactor," of what honor is he worthy who diffuses ideas regarding health and life among... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1892 - 292 páginas
...school, in connection with farm life, affords us the best possible means of imparting it to the child. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is counted a benefactor of his race, then he who has been taught to hoe a hill of potatoes so as to... | |
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