 | Norman Scott Brien Gras - 1925 - 488 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" (A. Young, Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, ed. of Betham-Edwards, 1905, p. 54).... | |
 | Norman Scott Brien Gras - 1925 - 488 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" (A. Young, Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, ed. of Betham-Edwards, 1905, p. 54).... | |
 | Christian Augustus Barman - 1926 - 330 стор.
...possession," says another writer, " 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 are not concerned in these pages with the choice between a garden and a desert. But the time factor... | |
 | 1893 - 640 стор.
...Give a man the ' secare possession of a bleak rock, he will turn it into a ' garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he ' will convert it into a desert.' No doubt in the great majority of cases in this country muí on most, if not all, of the really large... | |
 | 1892 - 586 стор.
...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."\ And Leo XIII. thus discourses upon the character of this right of private ownership: " Here again we... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 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 magic of PROPERTY turns sand to gold. ARTHUR YOUNG, journal entries for July 30 and November... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - 1995 - 350 стор.
...man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine year's lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." Ownership that can be separated from occupancy and operation is an open invitation to the occupant... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 1997 - 452 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." See Arthur Young, Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, ö 1789; undertaken more particularly... | |
 | Richard Rawlings, London School of Economics and Political Science - 1997 - 404 стор.
...Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert'; see the specious notion that, in their ‘natural' (instinctive?) attachment to their ways, ethnic... | |
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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... 
