| Money - 1799 - 208 páginas
...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... | |
| William Nicholson - 1807 - 844 páginas
...On the 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... | |
| 1807 - 534 páginas
...ot Sea 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... | |
| Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1807 - 528 páginas
...Sea 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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1808 - 440 páginas
...the creed ef their philosophical belief, a foolish saying of some not very wise aulhor3 cc That he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is the greatest benefactor to his species." With these persons,. the noblest employment of human intellect... | |
| 1820 - 482 páginas
...Cultivation of the 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 - 1824 - 474 páginas
...death ; It 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... | |
| 1858 - 648 páginas
...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... | |
| 1828 - 348 páginas
...complaints were lost in expressions of admiration. " A Philosopher has said," says a modern Tourist, " that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow,...him to smile, and converted the worthless heath into waving woods, luxuriant corn-fields, and pastures." From October 1795, to April 1801, Mr. Johnes planted... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 620 páginas
...greater quantity "of grain ; on the contrary, every one consents to the praise bestowed, by Johnson, upon the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. And an improvement in machinery, whereby the same labor will produce twice the quantity of cloth, is... | |
| |