 | John Stuart Mill - 1891 - 1154 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a Weak 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,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1894 - 504 стор.
...proverb, '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.' What has made all this misery ? he cries again and again ; what has blighted this magnificent country,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1896 - 1142 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1896 - 628 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,... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 1897 - 352 стор.
...people of Burgundy and 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, Bohn, 189x1, p. 54. 1 Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I,... | |
 | 1897 - 340 стор.
...people of Burgundy and 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, Bohn, 1890, p. 54. 'Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I, 549);... | |
 | 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 MorefonUiae. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | 1899 - 304 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,... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 472 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 - 520 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,... | |
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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... 
