 | Arthur Young - 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...fenfe to afk the caufe : the enjoyment of property mufl have done it. Give a man the fecure poffeiTion 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 delert. To Montadier, over a rough mountain covered... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1793 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...fenfe to 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 - عدد الصفحات: 770
...fenfe to 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 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...not refrain from quoting the well-known words which Arthur Young wrote to long ;uu as 17S9 : — " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause : the enjoyment of FRO. PEIITY must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a • Tour in France, \7o\. ip 407. f Ibid. Vol. ip 37. garden : give him a nine years lease of a garden,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...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... | |
 | Colonisation Society - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 38
...possession of c capital is most attractive in : America. So just is the remark of Mr. Arthur Young, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...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 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...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,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...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,...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... | |
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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. 
