 | Nathaniel Tyler - 1866 - 80 pages
...that it would lose nothing. I am convinced with Arthur Young: " 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, and he will convert a garden into a desert." Besides, the negro children... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (of Youghal, the younger.) - 1866 - 356 pages
...wonders achieved by ownership, exclaimed, ' The magic of property transforms sand into gold : give a man 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.' This will be the... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - 1866 - 326 pages
...wonders achieved by ownership, exclaimed, ' The magic of property transforms sand into gold : give a man 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.' This will be the... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 620 pages
...Europe. It was the 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, 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 Prussian sandy... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 140 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 a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." In his description... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 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 a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Speaking of the... | |
 | Humphry Sandwith - 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, 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." Now to whom does an... | |
 | Christopher Cavanagh - 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 turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.'" . .* " The mental... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
