 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pągines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument,, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thug better than the oiii an-oiitang, or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | 1817 - 678 pągines
...characteristic of Britain in the present day. It can no longer be asserted as it once was by Mr. Burke, that " were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." The extension of the ecclesia»tical influence of... | |
 | 1819 - 578 pągines
...orator, some years ago, ( Burke» vol. iv. p. 123, 8vo. London) that " were we to be driven out of India, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the injurious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger." But, No.... | |
 | John Wade - 1820 - 496 pągines
...conqueror of every Other description had left some monument of either state or beneficence behind him; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tio-er." — Burke's Works, vol. iv. p. 40. ' • • <>... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pągines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either uf state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boya we send to India worse... | |
 | 1823 - 878 pągines
...other description had left коте monument either of state or beneficence behind him; but. were we fo be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the oran-outaug or the tiger !" All this eloquence, however, was at present entirely... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 472 pągines
...Were we to be driven * The paltry foundation at Calcutta is scarcely worth naming as an exception. • out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 468 pągines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. " There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pągines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. " There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pągines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang ot1 the tiger." Mr. Burke then proceeded to take a more particular... | |
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England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state... 
