| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...benignity. — lard John Russell. Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. — Virgil. Whoever makes with patience. — Bruyère. He surely deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians... | |
| Vermont. State Board of Agriculture - 1901 - 302 páginas
...making better the condition of thousands of farmers and dairymen of our State. If the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor, what but benefactors of mankind can these men be? PRIVATE DAIRYING. As quite a proportion of the butter... | |
| W. M. Bunn - 1908 - 538 páginas
...that proves to me that the hotel keeper is a special creation. More than Dean Swift's man, who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is our hotel man who makes two smiles to bloom on the face of his guest where scarce one could cover the... | |
| 1900 - 1034 páginas
...competition, or deprive others of natural rights, it can hardly be condemned. If that man who induces two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his race, what is he who enables the poor man to buy two pounds of sugar or two loaves... | |
| George Boughton Curtiss - 1912 - 794 páginas
...other. Swift, in Gulliver's Travels, says : "And he gave it for his opinion that whoever would make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of... | |
| Francis Deming Hoyt - 1913 - 304 páginas
...the commercial activity of the place. And then what happens ? It's an old saying, that he who makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, has not lived in vain. Unfortunately, the services of such a man are not always duly appreciated. These... | |
| Rudolf von Jhering - 1914 - 562 páginas
...window through which the mind's eye, now and onward, may look down an interesting vista. If he who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before deserves well of mankind, as we are told, surely he who gives us two ideas where only one existed before... | |
| Rudolf von Jhering - 1914 - 556 páginas
...window through which the mind's eye, now and onward, may look down an interesting vista. If he who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before deserves well of mankind, as we are told, surely he who gives us two ideas where only one existed before... | |
| 1914 - 556 páginas
...window through which the mind's eye, now and onward, may look down an interesting vista. If he who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before deserves well of mankind, as we are told, surely he who gives us two ideas where only one existed before... | |
| 1915 - 280 páginas
...a country than to preserve the lives and health of its people? It has been said that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor, but how about one who causes two men to live where only one lived before? Yea, not two men, but thousands... | |
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