 | Arthur Young - 1792 - 586 sayfa
...fenfe to afk the caufe : the enjoyment of property mufl have done it. Give a man the fecure poffeiTion of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a delert. To Montadier, over a rough mountain covered... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1793 - 710 sayfa
...fenfe to alk the caufe : the enjoyment of property muft have done it. Give a man the fecure pofleflion of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a defert. To Montadier, over a rough mountain covered... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 770 sayfa
...fenfe to aik the cauie : the enjoyment of property muft have done it. Give a man the fecure poflefllon of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine year's leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a defert. To Montadiér over a rough mountain... | |
 | 1880 - 472 sayfa
...from quoting the well-known words which Arthur Young wrote to long ;uu as 17S9 : — " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease o( a garden aud he will turn it into a desert. The magic of property turns sand into gold." He was... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1840 - 564 sayfa
...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 it into a , • Tour in France, Vol. ip 407. t Ibid. Vol. ip 37. garden : give him a nine years lease of a garden,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 622 sayfa
...Young, in his Tour in France, observes — " Give a man the secure possession of .1 bleak rock, and lie will turn it into a, garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and ho will convert it into a desert." It is admitted, that where the landlord is resident and the estate... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 sayfa
...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...a garden, and " he will convert it into a desert." One other instance is adduced, of a country which a short time since suffered the worst evils of the... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 sayfa
...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...a garden, and " he will convert it into a desert." One other instance is adduced, of a country which a short time since suffered the worst evils of the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 622 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Colonisation Society - 1848 - 38 sayfa
...capital is most attractive in : America. So just is the remark of Mr. Arthur Young, " 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 amount of land sales in the United States during ten years has averaged more than one million and... | |
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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. 
