 | John Stuart Mill - 1896 - 1142 pages
...be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. IGive 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 deser£} ^£*-£- In his description... | |
 | William Tallack - 1896 - 512 pages
...has clothed the very rocks with verdure. The enjoyment of property has done it. Give a man the wcure 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... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 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 a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France,... | |
 | 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 a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." — Travels in France,... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 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, 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. We passed by Chantilly... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 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, 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. We passed by Chantilly... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 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, 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. We passed by Chantilly... | |
 | 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 turn it into a garden. Give him a nine years' -lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Such is the magic... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 506 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 details which... | |
 | 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 he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert," is only an extreme... | |
| |
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. 
