... standing. In the ploughing season, no one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he. If Dean Swift were right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before confers a greater benefit on the state than... The Atlantic Monthly - Página 2531859Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Foot Moore - 1913 - 692 páginas
...devil, reclamation of such land by irrigation or by the draining of marshes is a meritorious work; he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is not only a benefactor of his kind but a faithful servant of God. Who most makes glad the earth? He... | |
| 1903 - 768 páginas
...balls and fondling lap poodles, but have no time for such frivolous duties as those of motherhood? " He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before " is a benefactor, фHow one child can be sufficiently well endowed to compensate for the race suicide which... | |
| 1916 - 396 páginas
...almost as essential, since without it men could only exist as savages". If this be true, then the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is no more desirable and valuable a citizen than he who adds tuppence to the world's supply of available... | |
| Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association - 1916 - 380 páginas
...than mine. PURE BRED SEED FOR SOUTH DAKOTA ALFRED WENZ, Aberdeen, South Dakota. We admit that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor; But I should like to call your attention to the man who not only makes two ears... | |
| Fullerton Leonard Waldo - 1917 - 148 páginas
...city, the country, the world in the age to come by assuring the health and happiness of the unborn. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, then what is he who tears down a ramshackle tenement and rears in its place such a house... | |
| Ignatius Daniel O'Donnell - 1918 - 148 páginas
...a way that gladdens the hearts of the concoctors of commercial fertilizers. It is true that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor and the ambition to increase the rate of production on our farms is a commendable... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on education and labor - 1919 - 92 páginas
...I again divert? We all remember when in. our boyhood we found this old motto in our copy books : " He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor to his race." We all remember that statement, and it is a splendid old phrase ; but we... | |
| John St. George Joyce - 1919 - 660 páginas
...than average credit. One of these men — men who are just as much the benefactors of their race as he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before — is Patricious McManus, the subject of this sketch. For over half a century Mr. McManus has been engaged... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1919 - 96 páginas
...may I again divert? We all remember when in -our boyhood we found this old motto in our copy books: " He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor to his race." We all remember that statement, and it is a splendid old phrase; but we... | |
| 1919 - 270 páginas
...in the movement for bettering conditions on the farm. The Easton (Pennsylvania) Sentinel: If a man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of the race, Henry Wallace was more than a benefactor, for his life work was to make not... | |
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