 | 1866 - 580 стор.
...quotation which I recently observed occur these apt words — " The magic of property turns sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine yearn' lease, and he will convert a garden into a desert." I can only, in conclusion, repeat what I... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1868 - 494 стор.
...property transforms sand into gold. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will transform it into a garden. Give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." To use again the words of Fisher, himself a native of Great Britain : '• The utter hopelessness of... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1868 - 528 стор.
...sand into gold. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will transform it into a gHrden. Give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." To use again the words of Fisher, himself a native of Great Britain : '• The utter hopelessness of... | |
 | Francis William Loring, Charles Follen Atkinson - 1869 - 200 стор.
...small farmers ; the most scientific and expensive of all agricul" Give a man the secure possession p£a bleak 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." "The magic ©f Property turns sand to gold." — J. Stuart Mill. The tendency... | |
 | Francis William Loring, Charles Follen Atkinson - 1869 - 212 стор.
...the most scientific and expensive of all agricul" Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rode and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' least of a garden and he will turn it into a desert." " The magic of property turns sand to gold."... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 140 стор.
...be no rent, any more than that there should be no taxes. It merely implies that the rent should be a fixed charge, not liable to be raised against the...of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; * The Canton ScTiaffhausen (before quoted), p. 53. give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 620 стор.
...work of " the magic of property." " The magic of property," said Arthur Young, " turns sand into gold. 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 Prussian sandy plains were little better than a desert in the days of Frederick... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 632 стор.
...ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of ft bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. In his description of the country at the foot of the "Westem Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise,... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1872 - 512 стор.
...to common sense to ask the cause; the enjovment of property must have done it. Give a man the sure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Speaking of the country at the foot of the Western Pvrenees, he says: "It is all in the hands of little... | |
 | Humphry Sandwith - 1873 - 54 стор.
...things is good for cultivation. Surely we all have an interest in this question. Arthur Young says:—" Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Now to whom does an English entailed estate belong ? Not to the so-called owner, for he has only what... | |
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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. 
