...Masters. Mr. Johnes was 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...

...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 9 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,...

...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 1 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,...

...fitting tribute to my disinterested devotion to the interests of the human race. If it ¡a true that ' he who makes two blades of grass grow, where one grew before, is a benefactor to mankind,' in how much higher esteem most I be held, who propose to not only double and treble the grass...

...necessity, or urged by avarice and pride. I think that it is the celebrated Arthur Young who says, that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one only stood before, is a meritorious character; and surely the intelligent, liberal-minded agriculturist,...

...consideration, compared with the actual valuó of the accommodations thus provided. It has been justly said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of his race. In a how much higher sense can this be said, of those who open up fountains of living...

...requirements, the better, and hence the obvious importance of a new article of diet. It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his species. Sir Walter Raleigh, who introduced the potato into England, might certainly lay claim...

...SENATE, our animals while we neglect the improvement of man ? If he ia esteemed a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is not he a greater, who devises means for doubling the productive power of the mind of a people ? And...

...sub-soiling, draining, burning of lime, and collecting of manure in pits made outside of your cow-houses., It has been truly said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a benefactor to his country ; but by those means you will make plenty of grass...

...cheaper because it costs less money in the original outlay. If Dean Swift was right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is of more service to mankind than he who takes a city, we should be inclined to rank him hardly second...