...all workmen; and he who works hardest and best, gains the largest wealth and the highest honor. 'He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of his country.' He who invents machinery, by which one may outwork a thousand, accumulates...

...who can improve the varieties, or in any way increase the product, will do infinitely more than he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Within my recollection, great improvements have been made in the culture of Indian corn, chiefly by...

...who can improve the varieties, or in any way increase the pfoduct, will do infinitely more than he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Within my recollection, great improvements have been made in the culture of Indian corn, chielly by...

...crop, when there is so precarious a market for what it yields already ? Who can style him a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, when the result of such a process must be to diminish the chances of remuneration to the laborer, and...

...all who write upon Agriculture. From Adam Smith downward, this saying will be maintained: "that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country ;" and this compendium of the whole matter, induces me to mention two...

...all •who write upon Agriculture. From Adam Smith downward, this saying will be maintained: "that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country ;" and this compendium of the whole matter, induces me to mention two...

...greater crop of grain ; on the contrary, every one consents to the praise bestowed, by Johnson, upon the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. And an improvement in machinery, whereby the same labor will produce twice the quantity of cloth, is...

...we to appreciate the labours of its great cultivators! If we extol the genius of the agriculturist who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, shall we not exalt still higher the men who, in the already fertile branch, can increase the vital...

...partners, the rod and Madam Gossip, that always furnish a liberal share of their help. If he is a producer who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, then surely he who fashions and polishes the immortal mind and starts it on an eternal journey of discovery...

...numbers of ignorant and lazy barbarians would die of hunger. It has been said, that he is truest patriot who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before ; if so, we may reckon our patriots by thousands. With this encouraging remark, I now take my leave....