...ornaments the cheapest. A third advantage is, that they are of all ornaments the most useful. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before has been defined to be a patriot, what honour shall be due to him who fills the uncultured surface...

...those of the human family, who lire in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed ; and if he, who makes two blades of grass grow, •where but one grew before, is worth more to mankind, than the whole race of politicians put together, the man, who should effect...

...those of the human family, who live in the vicinity ! There is no doubt it would succeed ; and if he, who makes two blades of grass grow, where but one grew before, is worth more to mankind, than the whole race of politicians put together, the man, who should effect...

...hereafter. Gaming is an evil, because, in the first place, it is a practice which produces nothing. He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, has usually been admitted to be a public benefactor ; for he is a producer. So is he who combines or...

...Yours devotedly, " ELIOT LEE. " PS — My poor jack-o'-lantern, Kisel, is of course of no use tome, neither does he give me much trouble. He is a sort...served no purpose but to aggravate her self-reproaches. F 2 CHAPTER IX. " Come not near our fairy queen." BEFORE mid-winter, Linwood joined Eliot Lee at West...

...whose bright faces are even now before my swimming eyes. " Yours devotedly, "ELIOT LEE." " PS — My poor jack-o'-lantern, Kisel, is of course of no use...discontent." In this letter to his mother, Eliot enclosed to Bessie, reiterating even more forcibly and tenderly what he had before said. It served no purpose...

...that you see disgracing and pestering their grounds. Now if it be true, as Swift says, that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his country, surely the converse of the proposition may be stated as of equal verity,...

...broken in the chain which bouhd us in dependence upon foreign countries for articles of necessity. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is thought worthy of notice, equally so should he be who perfects the manufacture of any article, for...

...trouble. He is a sort of mountebank among the soldiers, merry himself, and making others merry. If be is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow...where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while ho produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent." In this letter to...

...of the sky, that is not comprehended in it. It was truly said by a wise man of other years, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a great public benefactor. What must it be to reclaim the Pontine marshes by skilful and successful...