 | History - 1897 - 340 pages
...the masses intolerable. On one occasion, indeed, he does say that though the people of Burgundy and possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France, Bohn, 1890, p. 54. 1 Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I, 549); "I... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - France - 1897 - 352 pages
...the masses intolerable. On one occasion, indeed, he does say that though the people of Burgundy and possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France, Bohn, 1890, p. 54. 'Jefferson to John Page. Paris, May 4, 1786 (I, 549); "I... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 508 pages
...lovers, in wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of Morefontaine. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...lovers, in wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of MorefonUiae. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 478 pages
...lovers, in wood. Windmills and cottages, shops and villages, nothing excluded except nature. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. We passed by Chantilly to Morefountain, the country seat of Morefontaine. Mons. de Morefountain, Prevost... | |
 | Comparative law - 1899 - 304 pages
...supplies the settler with the strongest incentive to industry.1 " Give a man," it has been said, " the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Such is the magic of property. But (and this is the vital point) to realise the benefit of this principle,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1899 - 518 pages
...cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak lock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine...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,... | |
 | Christian sociology - 1900 - 576 pages
...is that liberty means to the writer the overthrow of vexatious authority. Arthur Young's saying, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert," is only an extreme expression of a belief in the sacredness and strength of the sentiment of individual... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Anthropology - 1900 - 554 pages
...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...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." i It hardly needs to adduce more evidence to prove the intimate connection of the sense of secure possession... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1900 - 506 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; jjive him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." In his description... | |
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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. 
