 | Francis Amasa Walker - Labor - 1876 - 432 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,...years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."—Travels in France, Pinkerton, iv. 122. employs his every energy, directed by all his intelligence,... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Social history - 1876 - 436 pages
...are the incentive of industry most highly developed. Arthur Young's saying has become proverbial : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ;'" as also his other saying, " The magic of property turns sand into gold.'" The energy which fear... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Labor economics - 1876 - 440 pages
...are the incentive of industry most highly developed. Arthur Young's saying has become proverbial: " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden;"1 as also his other saying, " The magic of property turns sand into gold." 1 The energy which... | |
 | Joseph Kay - Land tenure - 1879 - 362 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,...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 says,2 ' I took the road... | |
 | Joseph Kay - Land tenure - 1879 - 392 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,...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 says,2 ' I took the road... | |
 | Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall - Economics - 1879 - 334 pages
...abound, their savings are very large. bank whose attractions can be compared with the land. " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden.... The magic of property turns sand into gold1." The peasant proprietor can give every hour of labour,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 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,...garden, and he will convert it into a desert.* The same impartial observer ascribes to the " Magic of Property," the transformation of the blowing dune... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - Land tenure - 1880 - 240 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1881 - 624 pages
...Schaffhausen (ut supra), p. 53. less so than a freeholder. What is wanted is permanent possession on fixed terms. " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak...details which have been cited, and those, still more mimite, to be found in the same authorities, concerning the habitually elaborate system of cultivation,... | |
 | M. A - 1881 - 480 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...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 is... | |
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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. 
