 | Girart] [Hewitt - 1868 - 52 strani
...now from what it used to be, and so light is the work of a farmer here, as compared with the East, that it is not surprising so many are disposed to...makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before—bringing wealth out of the earth, enriching and ennobling themselves, and adding to the material... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1888 - 464 strani
...concerned we know only in order to do, that knowledge unapplied is sterile, and is only fruitful when it makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, when it converts ' raw material ' into useful objects, or when it directs into some useful channel... | |
 | 1926 - 628 strani
...accomplishment to get out a booklet and instead of taking money out of the treasury to put money back into it. It makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. In that connection I would like to urge upon you that the membership list be continued. It would not... | |
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It sometimes seems to me that in refining upon the blessings of education we forget altogether what knowledge is for. So far as the improvement of man's estate is concerned we know only in order to do. Knowledge unapplied is sterile. It is only fruitful... 