| English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...ornaments the cheapest. A third advantage is, that they are of all ornaments the most useful. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before has been defined to be a patriot, what honour shall be due to him who fills the uncultured surface... | |
| William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...multiplication of their numbers to the great comfort and well being of those of the human family, who lire in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed...all the grass growers in the country. He would, in all probability, live to see the time, when the consequences of his benevolent undertaking would be... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1834 - 344 pages
...hereafter. Gaming is an evil, because, in the first place, it is a practice which produces nothing. He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has usually been admitted to be a public benefactor ; for he is a producer. So is he who combines or... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 290 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 328 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
| Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...that you see disgracing and pestering their grounds. Now if it be true, as Swift says, that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, surely the converse of the proposition may be stated as of equal verity,... | |
| Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association - Industrial arts - 1837 - 986 pages
...broken in the chain which bouhd us in dependence upon foreign countries for articles of necessity. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is thought worthy of notice, equally so should he be who perfects the manufacture of any article, for... | |
| 1844 - 668 pages
...sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If be is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while ho produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent."... | |
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