 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1866 - 628 pages
...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 • Arthur Young's Travelt in France, ml. ip 88. } Ibid. p. 51. a nine years lease of a garden, and... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1868 - 494 pages
...property transforms sand into gold. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will transform it into a garden. Give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." To use again the words of Fisher, himself a native of Great Britain : '• The utter hopelessness of... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1868 - 528 pages
...sand into gold. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will transform it into a gHrden. Give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." To use again the words of Fisher, himself a native of Great Britain : '• The utter hopelessness of... | |
 | Francis William Loring, Charles Follen Atkinson - Cotton growing - 1869 - 200 pages
...small farmers ; the most scientific and expensive of all agricul" Give a man the secure possession p£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 ©f Property turns sand to gold." — J. Stuart Mill. The tendency... | |
 | Francis William Loring, Charles Follen Atkinson - Cotton growing - 1869 - 212 pages
...the most scientific and expensive of all agricul" Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rode and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' least of a garden and he will turn it into a desert." " The magic of property turns sand to gold."... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - Land tenure - 1870 - 620 pages
...work of " the magic of property." " The magic of property," said Arthur Young, " turns sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." The Prussian sandy plains were little better than a desert in the days of Frederick... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1870 - 140 pages
...proprietor ; a 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 ; * The Canton ScTiaffhausen (before quoted), p. 53. give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...to common sense to ask the cause; the enjovment of property must have done it. Give a man the sure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Speaking of the country at the foot of the Western Pvrenees, he says: "It is all in the hands of little... | |
 | Humphry Sandwith - Land use - 1873 - 54 pages
...things is good for cultivation. Surely we all have an interest in this question. Arthur Young says:—" Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Now to whom does an English entailed estate belong ? Not to the so-called owner, for he has only what... | |
 | Christopher Cavanagh - Conveyancing - 1875 - 240 pages
...finds remarkable excellence of cultivation, never hesitates to ascribe it to peasant property. . . ' Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...and he will convert it into a desert.'" . .* " The mental faculties will be most developed where they are most exercised; and what gives more exercise... | |
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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. 
