 | John Finnemore - 1908 - 124 стор.
...(near at hand) if animated by the same omnipotent principle." And again he remarks of another spot: " An activity has been here that has swept away all...a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." That is the secret. The French peasant works for himself, and enjoys the fruit of his own labours.... | |
 | Jesse Collings - 1908 - 510 стор.
...of home and foreign competition. (Sir James Caird.) The magic of property turns sand to gold. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden. (Arthur Young. ) The farmer compared with the proprietor is as a merchant who trades with borrowed... | |
 | Jesse Collings - 1908 - 502 стор.
...of home and foreign competition. (Sir James Caird.) The magic of property turns sand to gold. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden. (Arthur Young.) The farmer compared with the proprietor is as a merchant who trades with borrowed capital... | |
 | Jesse Collings - 1908 - 502 стор.
...disgrace to common sense to ask the cause. The enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden. (Arthur Young, " Travels in France.") CHAPTER III SYNOPSIS OF PURCHASE OF LAND (ENGLAND AND WALES)... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1909 - 476 стор.
...lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has cloathed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace...possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a' gaTtteirpgive hiura nine years lease of a garden, and he will conYCTt it into a desert. To Montadier,3... | |
 | London Municipal Society - 1908 - 556 стор.
...so eminent an authority was wont to declare that " the magic of property turns sand to gold. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." * France, Germany, Canada, the States, and various other parts of the civilised world go to prove conclusively... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1086 стор.
...copyholder is not less so than a freeholder. What is wanted is permanent possession on fixed terms. " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into j a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details... | |
 | Gilbert Parker, Richard Dawson - 1910 - 280 стор.
...the furrow on their own freehold." Arthur Young : " The magic of property turns sand into gold — give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." Houritt, on Rural Life in Germany : " The peasants are not, as with us, for the most part totally cut... | |
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1912 - 378 стор.
...to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the sure possession of a bleak rock, and he -will turn it into a garden" The italics are my own. When will Arthur Young have his tablet in Westminster Abbey, I wonder? The... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 108 стор.
...CHAPTER III ARTHUR YOUNG: AUTHOR OK THE AGRICULTURAL TOUR " The magic of property turns sands into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will f t/ ' turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease .of a garden, and he will convert it into... | |
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Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. 
