 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1832 - 644 страница
...Published by order qf the Lyceum. IT has been remarked by some one, that the man who has contrived to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has rendered an important service to his country. A service no less im« portant is rendered by the... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1842 - 1068 страница
...before honor. Yet this consideration should not discourage those whose benevolent occupation it is, " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " By time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin." In view of these considerations, the committee... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1853 - 616 страница
...crisis, however, which has roused the energies of all connected with agriculture, and made them strive " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," has struck at the root of this great evil, and all but the tourist may be delighted by the sight of... | |
 | 1846 - 574 страница
...I have only to say, save your ears for another occasion. If by a remark of mine, any man is induced to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, I shall have done some service and will be content. On the annual return of this day here and elsewhere,... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1862 - 698 страница
...should be the aim of every young farmer to do not only as well as his father, but to do his best ; " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " Agriculture," says an ingenious writer, " is an art — man the artist. The soil is his laboratory... | |
 | 1852 - 572 страница
...implements of human advancement and happiness. Our anointed men are practical men — those who ' contrive to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before.' They are the men who have been called, and who have come. What are they doing — what have they done... | |
 | Journal of the Royal Agriculture Society fo England - 1853 - 618 страница
...crisis, however, which has roused the energies of all connected with agriculture, and made them strive " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," has struck at the root of this great evil, and all but the tourist may be delighted by the sight of... | |
 | 1854 - 406 страница
...clothing and general comiort in greater abundance and with less labour, — which, in a word, leaches him to make " two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." He points out to the nations that the pursuit of certain branches of knowledge is a race in which,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1863 - 734 страница
...should be the aim of every young fanner to do not only as well as his father, but to do his best ; " to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." " Agriculture," says an ingenious writer, " is an art — man the artist. The :soil is his laboratory;... | |
 | 1868 - 766 страница
...let him, leaving his mere handicraft, undertake to interrogate Nature herself — let him endeavor to "make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before" — let him try to improve the quality or increase the productiveness of his fruits and vegetable»... | |
| |
... make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before ; to heal the sick ; to reform the delinquent; to promote justice; or to educate the young. 
