 | 1897 - 340 стор.
...the masses intolerable. On one occasion, indeed, he does say that though the people of Burgundy and possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France, Bohn, 1890, p. 54. 1 Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I, 549); "I... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 472 стор.
...wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of Morefontaine. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 стор.
...wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of Morefontaine. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 стор.
...wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of MorefonUiae. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | 1899 - 304 стор.
...supplies the settler with the strongest incentive to industry.1 " Give a man," it has been said, " the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Such is the magic of property. But (and this is the vital point) to realise the benefit of this principle,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1899 - 518 стор.
...cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak lock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine...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,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 554 стор.
...would be a 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...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." i It hardly needs to adduce more evidence to prove the intimate connection of the sense of secure possession... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 506 стор.
...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...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details which have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,... | |
 | 1900 - 576 стор.
...liberty means to the writer the overthrow of vexatious authority. Arthur Young's saying, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert," is only an extreme expression of a belief in the sacredness and strength of the sentiment of individual... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1887 - 446 стор.
...not take the same care with buildings and * Marshall, ibid, p. 37. improvements. Said Arthur Young: "Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. . . . The magic of property turns sand into gold." The ownership of land is like an everpresent inducement... | |
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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. 
