Tenancy and Ownership: Cobden Club Prize EssayCassell, 1891 - 120 стор. |
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Сторінка 75 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 75 - It is visible in their new-built houses and stables, in their little gardens, in their hedges, in the courts before their doors, even in the coops for their poultry and the sties for their hogs. A peasant does not think of rendering his pig comfortable if his own happiness hangs by the thread of a nine years
Сторінка 75 - where M. le Brun has an improvement on the Dunes, which he very obligingly showed me. Between the town and that place is a great number of neat little houses, built each with its garden, and one or two fields enclosed, of most wretched blowing dune sand, naturally as white as snow, but improved by industry. The magic of property turns sand to gold.
Сторінка 75 - It is all in the hands of little proprietors, without the farms being so small as to occasion a vicious and miserable population. An air of neatness, warmth, and comfort breathes over...
Сторінка 75 - Gange, to the mountain of rough ground which I crossed, the ride has been the most interesting which I have taken in France; the efforts of industry the most vigorous; the animation 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 disgrace-to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it.
Сторінка 75 - I have seen in this ride of twelve miles from Pau to Moneng. It is all in the hands of little proprietors, without the farms being so small as to occasion a vicious and miserable population.
Сторінка 11 - I would take Adam Smith in hand, and I would have a League for free trade in land just as we had a League for free trade in corn.
Сторінка 11 - I believe we have no adequate conception of what the amount of production might be from a limited surface of land, provided only the amount of capital were sufficient.
Сторінка 15 - ... brief an interval. There is nothing at all wonderful in the matter. What the enemy have destroyed, would have been destroyed in a little time by the inhabitants themselves : the wealth which they BO rapidly reproduce, would have needed to be reproduced and would have been reproduced in any case, and probably in as short an interval.
Сторінка 14 - ... it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...