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" years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise, but from knowledge. " Take* the road to Meneng, and come presently to a scene which... "
Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 167
by John Stuart Mill - 1872 - 591 pages
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The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Poor - 1840 - 564 pages
...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...
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The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Poor - 1840 - 560 pages
...he will turn it into a • Tour in France, Vol. ip 407. f 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...
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The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Poor - 1840 - 568 pages
...and he will turn it into a Tour hi France, Vol. ip 4-07. f 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...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...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 have been cited, and those, still more minute, to be found in the same authorities,...
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The conditions and prospects of Ireland

Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 pages
...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." One other instance is adduced, of a country which a short time since suffered the worst evils of the...
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The mother country: or, The spade, the wastes, and the eldest son. An ...

Sidney Smith (phrenologist.) - Great Britain - 1849 - 204 pages
...year ago, "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." Are we not even yet alarmed at the annual invasion of England and Scotland ? The Irish landlords send...
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The Mother Country, Or, The Spade, the Wastes, and the Eldest Son: An ...

Sidney Smith - Great Britain - 1849 - 210 pages
...year ago, " 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." Are we not even yet alarmed at the annual invasion of England and Scotland ? The Irish landlords send...
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Political and social economy: its practical applications

John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...are told,' the secure posassion of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden—give im a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a esert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities 'hich Mr Mill and others have brought...
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The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign ..., Volume 14

International law - 1851 - 462 pages
...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.'" — Kay, vol. i. pp. 185—187. Here we have France " before and after" contrasted. Take also portions...
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The Irish Land Question: With Practical Plans for an Improved Land Tenure ...

Vincent Scully - Ireland - 1851 - 310 pages
...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." After a lapse of sixty years, the other great adversary to small estates, thus contrasts the present...
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