 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 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...a garden, and " he will convert it into a desert." One other instance is adduced, of a country which a short time since suffered the worst evils of the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 стор.
...illustration of Arthur Young's observation, " The magic of property turns sand to gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." The idea of conferring not only on our pauper labourers, but on the whole mass... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1848 - 276 стор.
...blowing sand, naturally as white as snow." But, as Young exclaims, in spite of himself, " give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden;" there ia "no way so sure of carrying tillage to a mountain-top as by permitting the neighbouring villagers... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 стор.
...favour, when he says that ' the magic of property turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill and others have brought together... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 358 стор.
...favour, when he says that ' the magic of property turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...— give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and ho will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 стор.
...the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and be will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years...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,... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1850 - 678 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...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 says *, ' I took the road... | |
 | Vincent Scully - 1851 - 296 стор.
...so often •cited in their favor :— "The magic of property transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." After a lapse of sixty years, the other great adversary to small estates, thus contrasts the present... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 стор.
...sands near Dunkirk, and quoted by Mr. Mill, " the magic of property turns sand to gold." " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." On this point, Mr. Kay contrasts Switzerland with the mountain districts of Wales, Westmoreland, Ireland... | |
 | Vincent Scully - 1851 - 310 стор.
...expressions, so often cited in their favor : — "The magic of property transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." After a lapse of sixty years, the other great adversary to small estates. thus contrasts the present... | |
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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. 
