 | 1862 - 588 էջ
...protect the vilest worm, if its life is spent in assisting him. If it is true "that he who has made two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor,'' how valuable must he be whose life's work has enabled him to say that fertile and flourishing acre»... | |
 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - 1865 - 614 էջ
...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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1867 - 600 էջ
...the number of all the citizens ! The saying of Adam Smith has been quoted thousands of times, thai he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor. But be who doubles the amount of knowledge belonging to a community is a public benefactor as much... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1867 - 256 էջ
...SANCTIFIES CIVILIZATION. WHO shall contradict the saying of Adam Smith, that " he is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before " ? This the scientific man does. Wherever the intelligent and industrious man goes, though it be to... | |
 | 1868 - 766 էջ
...lecture, and a vast deal more, of the greatest importance for him to know. It has been wisely said, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. I have at least made an effort to accomplish something in that direction, and I hope that each of you... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1901 - 604 էջ
...family, but on the whole community. I cannot refrain from •quoting the last sentence. "If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor, what shall he be called, who ornaments his home with the most beautiful productons of the... | |
 | 1868 - 402 էջ
...improve the processes and products of his calling. It is all very well to say in public orations, that be who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to his race; but what does it amount to ? Suppose that some intelligent and thoughtful man... | |
 | George W Johnso & Robert Hood - 1868 - 798 էջ
...carried a possible ManVhal Niel in their knapsack. If the man is to be accounted a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, .how mnch more the originator of a really good Rose ? And then the delight of naming it 1 " Glory of... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1869 - 786 էջ
...lecture, and a vast deal more, of the greatest importance for him to know. It has been wisely said, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor. I have at least made an effort so accomplish something in that direction, and I hope that each of you... | |
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