 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.  Annual Report - Seite 359von Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 Seiten
...would be a 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 garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.* The same impartial observer ascribes... | |
 | M. A - 1881 - 480 Seiten
...copyholder is 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 it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The principles laid down in the above... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1881 - 296 Seiten
...adjoining villagers 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 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... | |
 | 1881 - 868 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...would be a 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 garden. Give a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Arthur Young, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Milton Gregory - 1882 - 408 Seiten
...laborer. Economists frequently quote, with approval of its truthfulness, the saying of Arthur Young : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." The small farmers of France, whose little fields give such a patch-work look to the country, have,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1883 - 268 Seiten
...would be a 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 garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden. ' and he will convert it into a desert" Again, take his description of the... | |
 | 1883 - 558 Seiten
...disgrace to common 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 him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert."1 1 For these and many other examples... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1885 - 626 Seiten
...copyholder is 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 it into a garden ; give him aniñe years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details which have been... | |
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