 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1889 - 348 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...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." Many of the vineyards which greet the eye of the traveller, along the Khine,... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 528 стор.
...the secure possession of a bleak rock," said Arthur Young in reference to peasant proprietorship, " and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine...of a garden, and he will convert it Into a desert." JBS POLITICS IN THE MAGAZINES. FOKUM (December).— In " The Stability of the French Republic" M. Jules... | |
 | John Watson - 1891 - 132 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. There are some parts of England (where small yeomen still remain) that resemble this country of Beam,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1892 - 628 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 speaks no longer from surmise,... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 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. To Montadier,3 over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender ; it is a beggarly village, with... | |
 | Russell Montague Garnier - 1893 - 594 стор.
...the philosophical and political tendencies of the age. Thus Arthur Young had said, " 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." 3 " The magic of property," he points out during his walk to Rosendal (near... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1894 - 504 стор.
...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 turn...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,... | |
 | 1895 - 914 стор.
...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, 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1896 - 1142 стор.
...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 will turn...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... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 1897 - 352 стор.
...the masses intolerable. On one occasion, indeed, he does say that though the people of Burgundy and possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France, Bohn, 1890, p. 54. 'Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I, 549); "I... | |
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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. 
