| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 стор.
...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 it into a garden ; give...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.
...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 it into a garden ; 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.
...freeholder. What is wanted is permanent possession on fixed terms. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give...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.
...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 it into a garden; 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.
...Switzerland is the most perfect, and economical, anywhere seen. " 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... | |
| George John Shaw- Lefevre (baron Eversley.) - 1882 - 42 стор.
...it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden. Give a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Arthur Young, notwithstanding his own testimony as to the results, was not favourable to the system... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1883 - 268 стор.
...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 it into a garden ; give...a garden. ' and he will convert it into a desert" Again, take his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees : — " A succession... | |
| 1883 - 556 стор.
...sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden ; give...years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert."1 1 For these and many other examples see Thornton's Pica for Peasant Proprietors. It hardly... | |
| 1885 - 568 стор.
...which has the magical effect. Hence Arthur Young's second axiom, ' Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' So that we may be sure that the best examples of what peasant farms can show under a few benevolent... | |
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