 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 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...years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."—Travels in France, Pinkerton, iv. 122. employs his every energy, directed by all his intelligence,... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 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...years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."—Travels in France, Pinkerton, iv. 122. employs his every energy, directed by all his intelligence,... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1879 - 392 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.' " In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says,2 ' I took the road... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1879 - 400 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.' "In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he says,2 ' I took the road... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 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.* The same impartial observer ascribes to the " Magic of Property," the transformation of the blowing... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1880 - 240 стор.
...to acquire it in property ; " and he added the words which have become a proverb, " 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. The magic of property turns sand into gold." This opinion of Arthur Young, of... | |
 | M. A - 1881 - 480 стор.
...not 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 principles laid down in the above quotation, though on the whole approved of in the abstract, it... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1881 - 296 стор.
...to acquire it in property ; " and he added the words which have become a proverb, " 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. The magic of property turns sand into gold." This opinion of Arthur Young, of... | |
 | 1881 - 868 стор.
...Give a man secure possession of a 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."* In Great Britain the land laws sanction the accumulation of land. The laws of primogeniture and entail... | |
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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. 
