| Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain) - 1908 - 530 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and Jhe will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." Even the deer forests of Scotland might show some results if this " magic of property," this enjoyment... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1076 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,... | |
| Arthur Young - 1909 - 484 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. To Montadier, 3 over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender; it is a beggarly village, with... | |
| Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree - 1910 - 726 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give hini a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." On the contrary, although the Belgian law gives no compensation whatever for improvements in most districts,... | |
| South Africa. Department of Agriculture - 1912 - 1014 стор.
...a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he ivill turn it into a garden : give liitii a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." No man on a town lot, an acre plot, or a 500-acre farm will succeed in the highest degree if it is... | |
| 1913 - 800 стор.
...Arthur Young, "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." Leo XIII speaks thus of this right of private ownership: "Here we have another proof that private ownership... | |
| Hutton Webster - 1917 - 414 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. Take the road to Monein, and come presently to a scene which was so new to me in France that I could... | |
| Society of Comparative Legislation - 1899 - 686 стор.
...been said, " 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." Such is the magic of property. But (and this is the vital point) to realise the benefit of this principle,... | |
| John Fremont Wilber - 1918 - 130 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 nine-year lease was a common form of land tenure in his day. Sismondi writes: "What endowed man... | |
| James Ernest Boyle - 1921 - 468 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 . . . Take the road to Moneng, and come presently to a scene which was so new to me in France, that... | |
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