 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 468 pàgines
...conquerour 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-outangor the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - 1808 - 384 pàgines
...conqueror of every other description, had left some monument of state or of 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 tiger." » The only observation which this harangue can... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pàgines
...some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this dav, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1810 - 612 pàgines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, be. hind 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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pàgines
...conqueror of every other defcription had left fome monument either of ftate or beneficence behind him ; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been pofieffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the oran-outang or... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 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 thug better than the oiii an-oiitang, or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse... | |
 | 1817 - 678 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Wade - 1820 - 496 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
