 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1890 - 348 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." Yet a little farther southward of Nimes we come upon transformations much more startling. A visit to... | |
 | James Rupert Elliott - 1890 - 296 pages
...intelligent, and the most successful." Arthur Young makes this striking and enthusiastic remark : " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." Nothing can be more conducive to the success of the farmer's enterprise than the confidence that' his... | |
 | John Watson - 1891 - 132 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. There are some parts... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1892 - 628 pages
...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 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 details which... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 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. To Montadier,3 over... | |
 | Russell Montague Garnier - 1893 - 594 pages
...accordance with the philosophical and political tendencies of the age. Thus Arthur Young had said, " 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." 3 " The magic of property,"... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...BRANSON, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. Arthur Young, the great farmer-economist of England, said years ago, "The magic of property turns sand into gold. Give...a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." And Adam Smith in his epoch-making book, "The Wealth of Nations," wrote nearly a century ago, "A small... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1894 - 504 pages
...the deserts around them into gardens.' ' Give a man,' he adds, in a phrase which is now a proverb, '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.' What has made all... | |
 | 1895 - 914 pages
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause: the enjoyment of property munt 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, November 7,... | |
 | William Tallack - 1896 - 690 pages
...difficulties before it and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. The enjoyment of property has done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." And Miss BETHAM EDWARDS, in writing of " France of to-day," speaks of : — " The almost entire self-sufficingness... | |
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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. 
