 | Arthur Young - 1793 - 710 pages
...alk the caufe : the enjoyment of property muft have done it. Give a man the fecure pofleflion of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a defert. To Montadier, over a rough mountain covered... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 770 pages
...aik the cauie : the enjoyment of property muft have done it. Give a man the fecure poflefllon of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine year's leafe of a garden, and he will convert it into a defert. To Montadiér over a rough mountain... | |
 | 1880 - 472 pages
...well-known words which 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... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 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... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 pages
...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 ; "...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... | |
 | Colonisation Society - 1848 - 38 pages
...attractive in : America. So 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...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... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 pages
...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 ; "...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...Young's observation, " 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 pages
...the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and be will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years...his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise, but from knowledge. " Take* the road to Moneng,... | |
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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. 
