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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. "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 335
by John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 552 pages
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 80

Agriculture - 1880 - 472 pages
...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...
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The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Poor - 1840 - 564 pages
...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, and he will convert it into a desert."* The beneficial effects of property, therefore, in improving the industrious habits of the persons who...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 622 pages
...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...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...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'...speaks no longer from surmise, but from knowledge. "Takef the road to Moneng, and come presently to a scene which was so new to me in France, that I could...
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The Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils Arising from the ...

Jonathan Pim - Famines - 1848 - 396 pages
...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'...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...
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The conditions and prospects of Ireland

Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 pages
...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'...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...
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Competence in a Colony Contrasted with Poverty at Home: Or, Relief to ...

Colonisation Society - Australia - 1848 - 38 pages
...just is the remark of Mr. Arthur Young, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years'...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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The Dublin Review, Part 2

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...The magic of property turns sand to gold. 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 idea of conferring not only on our pauper labourers, but on the whole mass...
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Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Applications

John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden — give him a nine years'...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill and others have brought together...
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Political and social economy: its practical applications

John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' 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 ho will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill...
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