 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 стор.
...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 ;" J as also his other saying, " The magic of property turns sand into gold." 2 The energy which fear... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 стор.
...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... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1879 - 400 стор.
...disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...; give him a nine 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,... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1879 - 392 стор.
...disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...; give him a nine 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,... | |
 | Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall - 1879 - 334 стор.
...proprietors 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.
...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, and he will turn...; 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,... | |
 | M. A - 1881 - 480 стор.
...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...; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The principles laid down in the above quotation, though on the whole... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1881 - 296 стор.
...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, and he will turn...garden; 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
