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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. "
The Mechanics' Magazine - Page 327
1858
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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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Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the ..., Volume 29

New York State Agricultural Society - 1870 - 972 pages
...York is $80,000,000, and in New England it is $70,000,000. The remark has so often been made that " he who makes .two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a great public benefactor," that the phrase has become proverbial. In view of the facts just stated,...
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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 Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture, Volume 1

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...
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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 - 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...
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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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The Western Journal and Civilian: Devoted to Agriculture ..., Volume 7

1851 - 464 pages
...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...
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The Western Journal, Volume 7

1851 - 510 pages
...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...
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