...offering another illustration of Arthur Young's observation, " The magic of property turns sand to gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." The idea of conferring not only on our pauper labourers, but on the whole mass...

...wretched blowing sand, naturally as white as snow." But, as Young exclaims, in spite of himself, " give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden;" there ia "no way so sure of carrying tillage to a mountain-top as by permitting the neighbouring villagers...

...favour, when he says that ' the magic of property turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill and others have brought together...

...favour, when he says that ' the magic of property turns sand into gold.' ' Give a man,' we are told, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...— give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and ho will convert it into a desert.' What is most conspicuous through all the authorities which Mr Mill...

...the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and be will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years...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,...

...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,...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 says *, ' I took the road...

...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.'" — Kay, vol. i. pp. 185 — 187. Here we have France " before and after " contrasted. Take also portions...

...expressions, so often cited in their favor : — "The magic of property transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...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...

...cultivated sands near Dunkirk, and quoted by Mr. Mill, " the magic of property turns sand to gold." " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." On this point, Mr. Kay contrasts Switzerland with the mountain districts of Wales, Westmoreland, Ireland...

...expressions, so often •cited in their favor :— "The magic of property transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...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...