| Money - Money - 1799 - 208 pages
...Pesh they are taken to Vienna, whence they are distributed through the markets of Germany. If a person who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, adds to the riches of mankind, how large an accession of wealth is due to an arrangement which makes... | |
| Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1807 - 528 pages
...Kale. By Mr. JOHN MAKER, FHS From the TRANSACTIONS of the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON. JL F the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
| William Nicholson - Science - 1807 - 844 pages
...Cultivation of the C'rambe Ultirilima of Lintieus, or Sea Kale. By Mr. JOHN MAKER, FHS* -1L F the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
| Industrial arts - 1807 - 534 pages
...Kale. By Mr, JOHN MAHER, FHS From the TRANSACTIONS of the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON. AF the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
| Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 404 pages
...assume, as the creed of their philosophical belief, a foolish saying of some not very wise author, " That he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is the greatest benefactor to his species." With thesepersons, • the noblest employment of human intellect... | |
| Floriculture - 1820 - 482 pages
...Crambe Maritima of LINNEUS, or Sea Kale. By Mr. JOHN MA HER, FHS Read November 2, 1805. IF the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
| Andreas Andersen Feldborg - Denmark - 1824 - 474 pages
...uielts the sword of war, yet keeps it in the sheath." Being, moreover, of Swift's opinion, that the man who " makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is so far a creator," I gladly accepted Colonel Tscherning's offer, to show me those parts of the works... | |
| Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard - 1824 - 224 pages
...a benefactor to the country in the largest sense of the word. A Philosopher has said, that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is greater than the greatest hero : if this be true, Mr. Johnes must rank before all the conquerors of... | |
| Industrial arts - 1858 - 648 pages
...we to appreciate the labours of its great cultivators! If we extol the genius of the agriculturist who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, shall we not exalt still higher the men who, in the already fertile branch, can increase the vital... | |
| Wales - 1828 - 348 pages
...lost in expressions of admiration. " A Philosopher has said," says a modern Tourist, " that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is greater than the greatest hero. If this be true, Mr. Johnes must rank before all the conquerors of... | |
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