| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - Страниц: 938
...industrious, developing the resources of the neighbourhood in which they settled, and endeavouring to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. It would be a pleasant task, and the results valuable, to trace out the various occupations in which these... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - Страниц: 848
...cheese, in wool, or in fine stock, can scarcely promote these interests more effectually than by striving to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; anil finally, that this desirable result may be in part, if not wholly, attained by better seeding,... | |
| William Webb Follett Synge - 1877 - Страниц: 222
...be due to me in another month," he said, " I shall buy a territory and settle it. Not only do I hope to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but trust soon to have a thriving colony about me. I shall have work to give and good wages to pay... | |
| 1910 - Страниц: 756
...spiritual resources and wealth of humanity and thereby to man's comfort, happiness and well-being; to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before; to go down into the bowels of the earth and bring up material to build homes and to heat them; to harness... | |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1882 - Страниц: 88
...so early as not to have already learned what may enable them, on some spot or other in after life, " to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.'' — I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, JAMES FW JOHNSTON. DURHAM, November... | |
| Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1883 - Страниц: 476
...the education of a farmer is that his labor may become more skilled and more profitable ; but to know how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is not all of the farmer's life. He has higher interests and higher responsibilities than those for... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1884 - Страниц: 156
...our vnnth in habits of useful industry. Its purpose is not to inoreasH the eflactiveness of labour, to make " Two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." It does not show a pupil how by acquiring a manual art he can double or treble the valne of his labour.... | |
| James Weston - 1880 - Страниц: 130
...benefactors of their country than " the whole race of politicians put together " — one of those who delight to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. It was therefore to be expected that his official connection with the municipality of Preston would be... | |
| Joseph Livesey - 1884 - Страниц: 130
...benefactors of their country than " the whole race of politicians put together " — one of those who delight to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. It was therefore to be expected that his official connection with the municipality of Preston would be... | |
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