 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 436 стор.
...are the incentive of industry most highly developed. Arthur Young's saying has become proverbial : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ;'" as also his other saying, " The magic of property turns sand into gold.'" The energy which fear... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 стор.
...are the incentive of industry most highly developed. Arthur Young's saying has become proverbial: " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden;"1 as also his other saying, " The magic of property turns sand into gold." 1 The energy which... | |
 | Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall - 1879 - 334 стор.
...abound, their savings are very large. bank whose attractions can be compared with the land. " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden.... The magic of property turns sand into gold1." The peasant proprietor can give every hour of labour,... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1880 - 240 стор.
...adjoining villagers to acquire it in property ; " and he added the words which have become a proverb, " 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. The magic of property turns sand into gold." This opinion of Arthur Young, of... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1881 - 296 стор.
...adjoining villagers to acquire it in property ; " and he added the words which have become a proverb, " 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. The magic of property turns sand into gold." This opinion of Arthur Young, of... | |
 | 1881 - 868 стор.
...Switzerland is the most perfect, and economical, anywhere seen. " Give a man secure possession of a 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."* In Great Britain the land laws sanction... | |
 | George John Shaw- Lefevre (baron Eversley.) - 1882 - 42 стор.
...difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common-sense to ask the cause — the enjoyment of property must...bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden. Give a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Arthur Young, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Milton Gregory - 1882 - 408 стор.
...laborer. Economists frequently quote, with approval of its truthfulness, the saying of Arthur Young : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." The small farmers of France, whose little fields give such a patch-work look to the country, have,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1885 - 626 стор.
...scenery very interesting to a farmer. From Gange, to the mountain of rough ground which I crossed, ths ride has been the most interesting which I have taken...rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him • Arthur Young's Trivdi in Fran.«, TOl. ip 83. t Ibid. p. 61. & nine years lease of a gaiden, and... | |
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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. 
