 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 стор.
...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. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of Morefontaine. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1899 - 630 стор.
...Give .1 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 details which have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 558 стор.
...it. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and lie will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." 1 It hardly needs to adduce more evidence to prove the intimate connection of the sense of secure possession... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 560 стор.
...it. Give a man 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." 1 It hardly needs to adduce more evidence to prove the intimate connection of the sense of secure possession... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 506 стор.
...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 details which have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1902 - 438 стор.
...Young: "Give a man 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 magic of property turns sand into gold." The ownership of land is like an everpresent inducement... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1904 - 626 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him aniñe years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details which have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,... | |
 | J. S. Dudgeon - 1905 - 58 стор.
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 | William Dwight Porter Bliss, Rudolph Michael Binder - 1908 - 1358 стор.
...“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.” He shows also that small farms owned by their operators increase production, because more labor and... | |
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years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise, but from knowledge. " Take* the road to Meneng, and come presently to a scene which... 
