 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1922 - 252 стор.
...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, and he will turn...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.... | |
 | James Dundas White - 1924 - 236 стор.
...property." l Secure Possession " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock," wrote [_ Arthur Young, " and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." 1 But the secure possession that enables him to reap the results of his industry can be obtained by... | |
 | Norman Scott Brien Gras - 1925 - 488 стор.
...Re-read that part of the text describing the Scully estate. 14. Comment on the following: "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" (A. Young, Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789, ed. of Betham- Edwards, 1905, p. 54).... | |
 | Christian Augustus Barman - 1926 - 330 стор.
...conveniently describes as " spending money." " Give a man secure possession," says another writer, " of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." We are not concerned in these pages with the choice between a garden and a desert. But the time factor... | |
 | Sir Sydney John Chapman - 1926 - 192 стор.
...cultivates. It is known as peasant proprietorship. It has its advantages — ' 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 it has its disadvantages also : and both advantages and disadvantages are... | |
 | 1893 - 640 стор.
...requote another often quoted passage, ' Give a man the ' secure possession of a bleak rock, he will tarn it into a ' garden ; give him a nine years' lease...a garden, and he ' will convert it into a desert.' We fear, indeed, tbat the Date has been led astray hy the indignation which Mr. George's proposals... | |
 | 1892 - 586 стор.
...find in ownership of land the great incentive to exertion. " Give a man," says Arthur Young, " the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." J And Leo XIII. thus discourses upon the character of this right of private ownership : " Here again... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1895 - 334 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...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Again, November 7, 1787: "Walk to Rosendale (in Flanders). Between the town and that place are a great... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 стор.
...Plymouth.— The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, vol. 1, p. 214 (1903). 1550 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 magic of PROPERTY turns sand to gold. ARTHUR YOUNG, journal entries for July 30 and November... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - 1995 - 350 стор.
...man the secure possession 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." Ownership that can be separated from occupancy and operation is an open invitation to the occupant... | |
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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. 
