 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pàgines
...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 orang-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pàgines
...monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, notliing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. " There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pàgines
...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 or the tiger. " There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 368 pàgines
...bridges. It made no roads, no canals, no reservoirs. " Were we," he says, "to be driven out of India to day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed during the inglorious period of our domination by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." , We who have lived to see England... | |
 | Henry Jeffreys Bushby - 1855 - 74 pàgines
...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...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Doubtless, when this eloquent invective was uttered,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1855 - 632 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Jeffreys Bushby - 1855 - 94 pàgines
...every other description has left some monument either of state or heneficence hehind him. Were we to he driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had heen possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, hy anything hetter than the ourang-outang... | |
 | 1856 - 944 pàgines
...day, were the contingency contemplated by that illustrious orato'r to befall us: we do not think that "were* we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the Inglorious period of our dominion, by any tiling better than the ouran44itang, or the ti^r;" but candour compels us to confess, that our government... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pàgines
...description, has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him.' ' Were we,' said Burke, '1ц be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang ; or the tiger.' Such was the language j which could be held... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1864 - 974 pàgines
...social improvement of cities, still it must be said, as he did — how many years ago ? — " Were we driven out of India this day, nothing would remain...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang, or the tiger." For how much is it better now ? Bring your cities... | |
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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... 
