 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1086 стор.
...possession on fixed terms. " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into j a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details which have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,... | |
 | South Africa. Department of Agriculture - 1912 - 1014 стор.
...when he penned those arresting lines : " The magic of property turns sands into gold. 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." No man on a town lot, an acre plot, or a 500-acre farm will succeed in the highest degree if it is... | |
 | 1913 - 800 стор.
...does he find ownership of land the great incentive of exertion. "Give a man," says Arthur Young, "the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." Leo XIII speaks thus of this right of private ownership : "Here we have another proof that private... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 108 стор.
...property turns sands into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will f t/ ' turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease .of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."—ARTHUR YOUNG. A RTHUR YOUNG, the greatest ** of English agriculturists^ jind _the poorest... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1915 - 398 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, over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender; it is a beggarly village, with an... | |
 | Lucian Oldershaw - 1915 - 162 стор.
...that he says "the magic of property turns sand to gold," and again, "give a man the secure position of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden....of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." He, however, points out that where the properties are too small the agriculture is bad, and recommends... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 414 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. Take the road to Monein, and come presently to a scene which was so new to me in France that I could... | |
 | John Fremont Wilber - 1918 - 130 стор.
...result of experience. Arthur Young says : "The magic of property turns sand into gold." "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 nine-year lease was a common form of land tenure in his day. Sismondi writes: "What endowed man... | |
 | Sir Sydney John Chapman - 1921 - 486 стор.
...own the land which he cultivates. This plan has its recommendations : " give a man secure tenure of a 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". But the scheme has its drawbacks also : and both recommendations and drawbacks... | |
 | Lucian Robert Frederic Oldershaw - 1921 - 148 стор.
...a man the secure position of a bleak 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." He, however, points out that where the properties are too small the agriculture is bad, and recommends... | |
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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. 
