 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1917 - 684 стор.
...his reasonable satisfaction. " The magic of property," declared Adam Smith, " turns sand to gold ; give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." To the truthfulness of this observation every rural community of France to-day bears witness. Property... | |
 | Oregon State Horticultural Society - 1919 - 124 стор.
...endeavor. Different results proceed from the same aims. As to this a great writer has said, "Give one man a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give another man a fertile garden and in nine years' time he will turn it into a desert." This being largely... | |
 | University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division - 1922 - 872 стор.
...throughout the South where tenancy ratios are high. The English rural economist, Arthur Young, said: "Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine-year's lease on a garden and he will convert it into a desert." The economic and social effects... | |
 | Sir Sydney John Chapman - 1921 - 486 стор.
...own the land which he cultivates. This plan has its recommendations : " give a man secure tenure of a rock and he will turn it into a garden, give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert". But the scheme has its drawbacks also : and both recommendations and drawbacks... | |
 | Lucian Robert Frederic Oldershaw - 1921 - 148 стор.
...he says " the magic of property turns sand into gold," and again, " give a man the secure position 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." He, however, points out that where... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1922 - 252 стор.
...and her white frock, and she might pass for an earl's daughter. Miss MITFORD, Our Village, Ch. I, 12. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert. Westm. Gaz., No. 5388, 12a. ii. Go Hercules! | Live thou, I live. SHAK., Merch.... | |
 | Edward Albert Lever - 1922 - 114 стор.
...originally the justification for private ownership in land rested upon social utility. As Arthur Young puts it, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." This consideration, of course, applies principally when the owner is the actual cultivator or occupier... | |
 | University of North Carolina (1793-1962). North Carolina Club - 1923 - 212 стор.
...throughout the South where tenancy ratios are high. The English rural economist, Arthur Young, said: "Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine-year's lease on a garden and he will convert it into a desert." The economic and social effects... | |
 | William Bennett Bizzell - 1924 - 530 стор.
...aptitudes, but also by the nature of the tenure. In his Travels in France and Italy, Arthur Young says : "Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine-year lease on a garden and he will convert it into a desert." All things considered, it is to... | |
 | Thomas Jackson Woofter (Jr.) - 1925 - 280 стор.
...result he mines the soil instead of farming it. John Stuart Mill quotes Arthur Young as saying : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and...turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease on a garden and he will convert it into a desert." Share tenancy also reduces the product of the tenant,... | |
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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. 
