 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 421833Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...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, than in the boys whom... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conquerour of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...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 than the boys whom ue... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - India - 1808 - 384 pages
...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...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang outang or the tiger." » The only observation which this harangue can merit, is, that it is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...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,...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 than the boys whom... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Orators - 1810 - 612 pages
...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...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 than the boys whom... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...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 the tiger ?" All this eloquence, however, was at prefent entirely ineffectual, and the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument,, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...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... | |
 | Asia - 1817 - 678 pages
...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...thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." The extension of the ecclesia»tical influence of the state, and the augmentation of the supports of... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1820 - 496 pages
...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...by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tio-er." — Burke's Works, vol. iv. p. 40. ' • • <> >; • .l.'.cf: Si'i'ch is the general outline... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...reservoir». Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either uf state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...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 than the boys whom we... | |
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