 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 pàgines
...people has obtained no benefit. Burke, in a strain of bitter invective, said, half a century ago, " 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." The censure is now inapplicable ; but it may be said,... | |
 | 1838 - 388 pàgines
...people has obtained no benefit. Burke, in a strain of bitter invective, said, half a century ago, " 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." The censure is now inapplicable ; but it may be said,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1851 - 570 pàgines
...every other description has left some monument either of state or beneficence behind him. Were«?e to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pàgines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either 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." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 pàgines
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either 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." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 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 anythin? better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 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 ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | 1845 - 554 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 ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | Andrew Sterling - 1846 - 480 pàgines
...Englishmen to settle in India." Hence Burke in his day thundered against his countrymen, exclaming, — " Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...inglorious period of our dominion, by any better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Heber more temperately, but scarcely less cuttingly, observed ; — "... | |
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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... 
