| Arthur Young - 1792 - 586 стор.
...fenfe to afk the caufe : the enjoyment of property mufl have done it. Give a man the fecure poffeiTion of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden...years leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a delert. To Montadier, over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender j it is a beggarly village,... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1809 - 770 стор.
...fenfe to aik the cauie : the enjoyment of property muft have done it. Give a man the fecure poflefllon of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine year's leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a defert. To Montadiér over a rough mountain... | |
| 1880 - 472 стор.
...well-known words which Arthur Young wrote to long ;uu as 17S9 : — " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease o( a garden aud he will turn it into a desert. The magic of property turns sand into gold." He... | |
| Colonisation Society - 1848 - 38 стор.
...attractive in : America. So just is the remark of Mr. Arthur Young, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The amount of land sales in the United States... | |
| Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 стор.
...to ask " the cause : the enjoyment of property must have " done it. Give a man the secure possession of a " bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; " give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and " he will convert it into a desert." One other instance is adduced, of a country... | |
| Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 стор.
...to ask " the cause : the enjoyment of property must have " done it. Give a man the secure possession of a " bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; " give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and " he will convert it into a desert." One other instance is adduced, of a country... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 стор.
...Arthur Young's observation, " The magic of property turns sand to gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." The idea of conferring not only on our pauper... | |
| William Thomas Thornton - 1848 - 282 стор.
...as white as snow." But, as Young exclaims, in spite of himself, " give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden;" there is "no way so sure of carrying tillage to a mountain-top as by permitting the neighbouring villagers... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1849 - 358 стор.
...' the magic of property turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden — give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and ho will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the... | |
| Joseph Kay - 1850 - 680 стор.
...sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' " In his description of the country at the... | |
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