 | 1828 - 64 páginas
...present number of inhabitants. If, as hath been affirmed, he is one of the best friends of his country who makes two blades of grass, or two ears of corn grow, where only one would have otherwise grown, we must not look for such friends among the checkers of population.... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1852 - 716 páginas
...to a geologka] report made by Prof. Hitchcock of Mass , who was ambitions to point out means to make two blades of grass, or two ears of corn, grow where but one grew before. , The foregoing view, applicable to any country owning mines, manufactures and an improvable soil,... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1852 - 584 páginas
...a geological report made by Prof. Hitchcock of Mass , who was ambitious to point out means to make two blades of grass, or two ears of corn, grow where but one grew before. The foregoing view, applicable to any country owning mines, manufactures and an improvable soil, has... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 páginas
...and the aggregate annual rental which the crown then derived from it was £9,140. It has been said, that the man who makes two blades of grass, or two...but one grew before, deserves well of his country. The remark equally applies to those who, by skill and capital, add to its available area or territorial... | |
 | Charles Finch Dowsett - 1892 - 960 páginas
...grainfields, that have come as a crown of glory to reward his manhood's toils. Swift's oft-told observation that " the man who makes two blades of grass or two...but one grew before, deserves well of his country," seems but the scantiest meed of praise in recognition of such patriotic work as the enlargement of... | |
 | Henry John Spooner - 1918 - 340 páginas
...amortisation of our gigantic creation of credit. CHAPTER XI Utilisation of Waste Land " The man who maltes two blades of grass or two ears of corn grow where...but one grew before, deserves well of his country." — SWIFT. WASTE LAND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AT a time when the country is faced by the grave problem... | |
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... enormous imports. Indeed, the expense of the terrible War will impose upon us the duty of fully utilising all our energies and every possible plot of land to assist in the steady reduction and amortisation of our gigantic creation of credit. CHAPTER... 