| George Washington Julian - 1872 - 510 стор.
...Give a man the sure 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." Speaking of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says: "It is all in the hands of little... | |
| Christopher Cavanagh - 1875 - 240 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.'" . .* prejudice against cultivation by peasant proprietors is the case of Belgium. The soil is originally... | |
| Henry Fawcett - 1876 - 704 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.' In a previous chapter, various reasons have been stated which lead to the conclusion, that large farms... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 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."—Travels in France, Pinkerton, iv. 122. 2 How the magic of property turns sand into mold,... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 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."—Travels in France, Pinkerton, iv. 122. employs his every energy, directed by all his intelligence,... | |
| Joseph Kay - 1879 - 396 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...the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says, 2 ' I took the road to Moneng, and came presently to a scene, which was so new to me in France,... | |
| Joseph Kay - 1879 - 392 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...the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says, 2 ' I took the road to Moneng, and came presently to a scene, which was so new to me in France,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 стор.
...Give a man the 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.* Time same impartial observer ascribes to the “Magic of Property,” the transformation of the blowing... | |
| Joseph Kay - 1881 - 392 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...the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says, 2 ' I took the road to Moneng, and came presently to a scene, which was so new to me in France,... | |
| M. A - 1881 - 480 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a b'.eak 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 principles laid down in the above quotation, though on the whole approved of in the abstract, it... | |
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