 | James Rupert Elliott - 1890 - 296 стор.
...intelligent, and the most successful." Arthur Young makes this striking and enthusiastic remark : " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." Nothing can be more conducive to the success of the farmer's enterprise than the confidence that' his... | |
 | John Watson - 1891 - 132 стор.
...would be a 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,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. There are some parts of England (where small yeomen still remain) that resemble this country of Beam,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1892 - 628 стор.
...would be a 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,...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,... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 стор.
...would be a 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,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. To Montadier,3 over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender ; it is a beggarly village, with... | |
 | Russell Montague Garnier - 1893 - 594 стор.
...accordance with the philosophical and political tendencies of the age. Thus Arthur Young had said, " 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." 3 " The magic of property," he points out during his walk to Rosendal (near... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1894 - 504 стор.
...the deserts around them into gardens.' ' Give a man,' he adds, in a phrase which is now a proverb, 'the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' What has made all this misery ? he cries again and again ; what has blighted this magnificent country,... | |
 | 1912 - 620 стор.
...the great farmer-economist of England, said years ago, "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." And Adam Smith in his epoch-making book, "The Wealth of Nations," wrote nearly a century ago, "A small... | |
 | 1895 - 914 стор.
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause: the enjoyment of property munt have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1896 - 1142 стор.
...be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. IGive a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he...years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a deser£} ^£*-£- In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks... | |
 | William Tallack - 1896 - 690 стор.
...difficulties before it and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. The enjoyment of property has done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." And Miss BETHAM EDWARDS, in writing of " France of to-day," speaks of : — " The almost entire self-sufficingness... | |
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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. 
