 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 272
...encouragement do not these facts afford to the cultivator who seeks to reclaim other vegetables to the use and dominion of man? and if he is, as he has been said...new fruit, or teaches them the use of a new plant? IT is a pleasing task to register the actions of those men who are zealous in the pursuit of science,... | |
 | Benjamin Brierley - 1867 - Liczba stron: 142
...joy to me, as I hope it may be now. Ah ! why do we seek to destroy it ? They say he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow in the place of one ; and I am sure he is equally a benefactor who converts a waste into a garden, instead of a garden... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - 1868 - Liczba stron: 816
...worthy of study, and one to which English people would do well to give their attention. If that man is a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where only one did before, that art must be worth cultivation that enables a person to make one pound... | |
 | George W Johnso & Robert Hood - 1868 - Liczba stron: 798
...that they, too, each carried a possible ManVhal Niel in their knapsack. If the man is to be accounted a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, .how mnch more the originator of a really good Rose ? And then the delight... | |
 | Benjamin Brierley - 1884 - Liczba stron: 318
...joy to me, as I hope it may be now. Ah ! why do we seek to destroy it ? They say he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow in the place of one ; and I am sure he is equally a benefactor who converts a waste into a garden, instead of a garden... | |
 | Benjamin Brierley - 1884 - Liczba stron: 318
...joy to me, as I hope it may be now. Ah ! why do we seek to destroy it ? They say he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow in the place of one ; and I am sure he is equally a benefactor who converts a waste into a garden, instead of a garden... | |
 | Arthur Robert Kenney- Herbert - 1885 - Liczba stron: 576
...worthy of gtndy, and one to which English people would do well to give their attention. If that man is a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where only one did before, the art must be worth cultivating that enables a person to make one pound... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1895 - Liczba stron: 562
...the farmer for making fertilizers more, cheaply be extraordinary. If that man be called a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow in the place of one, much more is he who perfects stalk and ear to its climax of development. No expenditure of means are... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1898 - Liczba stron: 644
...appreciation and thanks also came from Mr. Isaac Wells. It had been said, he observed, that "the man is a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before." They had seen something of the efforts of Alderman Clark in connection... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1904 - Liczba stron: 258
...there any more satisfactory activity than just this same of curing the spirits of men? If that man is a benefactor to his race who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more is he who is the cup of blessing to a soul in some great agony,... | |
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Well might the poet say—" a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," since beauty was then a joy to me, as I hope it may be now. Ah ! why do we seek to destroy it ? They say he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow in the place of one ; and... 
