 | Joseph Kay - 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, 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... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 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, 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... | |
 | Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall - 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,... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 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, 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 of property... | |
 | 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, 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 same impartial... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - 1881 - 296 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, 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 of property... | |
 | M. A - 1881 - 480 pages
...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 ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The principles laid... | |
 | George John Shaw- Lefevre (baron Eversley.) - 1882 - 42 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 a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Arthur Young, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Milton Gregory - 1882 - 408 pages
...laborer. Economists frequently quote, with approval of its truthfulness, the saying of Arthur Young : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." The small farmers of France, whose little fields give such a patch-work look to the country, have,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1883 - 268 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" Again, take his... | |
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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. 
