...Indeed, suffer this pursuit to languish, and the wheel of national industry must cease to revolve. If he, who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a public benefactor ; he, surely, who improves the quality of agricultural products ; the form and value...

...purposes of intellectual improvement, or to innocent social enjoyment, must be a blessing. If the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is to be pronounced л public benefactor, certainly he is not less so, who will cause four to grow with...

...gaining them will be the same as if they were of much greater magnitude. It is a just and true saying, that, "he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, deserves more praise from his country, than the man who has conquered a kingdom." The husbandman's...

...be able to form a more definite estimate of its significance. We shall perceive that the making of two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is equivalent to increasing the annual income of New York by the sum of §80,000,000, the annual income...

...omnibus-atmosphere to an atmosphere of mysterious magnetic sympathies. I ". motto." ADAM SMITH says, that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country. Adam is right. But he would have come quite as near the mark had he pushed...

...of statistics essential to (ho husiness man and the scholar, as well as the legislator. If " the mau who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before" is worthy of enduring remembrance, the successful advocate of the American Statistical Bureau cannot and...

...of statistics essential to the business man and the scholar, as well as the legislator. If " the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before" is worthy of enduring remembrance, the successful advocate of the American Statistical Bureau cannot and...

...in the universe. To conclude : it has been said, that the greatest benefactor of the human race is he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before : but to our eyes, he seems a greater benefactor — inasmuch as the intellectual are loftier and nobler...

...Australia. Whoever renders human life more desirable is a benefactor of his kind. It has been said, that he who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is worthy to bear this name ; in other words, whoever increases, permanently, the means of sustenance,...

...shall we say of Mr. Hill's farming ? We often hear high compliments paid to a man who by his skill causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before. Now, we believe that Mr. Hill has caused tons of nutritious tame grasses to grow where nothing but...