| 1880 - 472 стор.
...not refrain from quoting the 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... | |
| Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 стор.
...district, " An activity has been " here, that has swept away all difficulties before " it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. " It would be...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... | |
| Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 стор.
...district, " An activity has been " here, that has swept away all difficulties before " it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. " It would be...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... | |
| Colonisation Society - 1848 - 38 стор.
...possession of c capital is most 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... | |
| William Thomas Thornton - 1848 - 276 стор.
...wretched blowing sand, naturally 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 ia "no way so sure of carrying tillage to a mountain-top as by permitting the neighbouring... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 стор.
...offering another illustration of 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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 стор.
...the most lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and be will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1849 - 358 стор.
...favour, when he says that ' 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... | |
| Joseph Kay - 1850 - 678 стор.
...the most lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a...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... | |
| 1851 - 462 стор.
...the most lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a...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.'" — Kay,... | |
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