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" It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species. "
Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ... - Page 194
by New York State Agricultural Society - 1870
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British Farmer's Magazine, Volume 1

Agriculture - 1837 - 530 pages
...of agriculture, and in the language of one who was no mean judge of human action, ' honour the man who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before,' or more particularly regard him, the same important object in view, the promotion of agriculture, dispensing,...
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The Mechanic and Chemist: A Magazine of the Arts and Sciences, Volume 4

1839
...immediate and certain effect of good machinery, is an increase of production. It is said, that he that makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his race. la not he who can produce cloth for five sulta of clothes, where only one was...
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The New-York Review, Volume 8

1841 - 572 pages
...performing on this matter a work of the highest interest to the farming community and all the people. He who makes " two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," is a public benefactor. Indeed, the economical geology of this section deserves much praise. The Hudson...
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The Farmers' Register, 1841

Edmund Ruffin - 1841 - 888 pages
...be beneficially used lo fructify the country through which i hey pass. If a blesding awaits the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, the irrigator will be ihrice blesl ; lor well watered land will produce at least Ihree limes as much...
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A memoir of the Union, and the agitations for its repeal. By an Irish ...

William Bullen (solicitor.) - 1843 - 152 pages
...only are required in England."* When we remember the remarkable expression of Johnson, that " the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, was a greater benefactor to the human race than all the politicians that ever existed;" Ireland, thus...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1843 - 420 pages
...tendencies of our very nature to which we have before alluded. It has been said that he, who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a great benefactor of his race ; the same may be said of him, through whose direct or indirect agency two yards...
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The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture, Volume 1

Agriculture - 1844 - 806 pages
...pretends to describe insects INTRODUCTION OF SPANISH SHEEP. " Honor to whom honor is due." The man who " makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," is, proverbially, a public beneactor — seeing that his example may benefit others, and stimulate millions...
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The Cultivator, A Monthly Journal to Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture ...

Luther Tucker - 1844 - 404 pages
...1844. GIDEON >'•• SMITH. INTRODUCTION OF SPANISH SHEEP. " Honor to whom honor is due." The man who " makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," is, proverbially, a public benefactor—seeing that his example may benefit others, and stimulate millions...
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Bob Norberry: Or, Sketches from the Note Book of the Irish Reporter

--- Levey - Irish fiction (in English) - 1846 - 418 pages
...foreign country, they make it fructify — they circulate it at home. It has been said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his country ; but the man who circulates two shillings in his native land where only...
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The American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day

Samuel Sands - 1848 - 452 pages
...native crab apple, one of the best fall and winter apples in the Union."— Alabama Planter. Now if he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor; surely he who, by his persevering skill, adds a new apple, should also be so considered....
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