 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
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 862 pages
...Arab, the Tartar, and the Persian, left behind them some monument of either state or beneficence; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...thing " better than the ourang-outang- or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been a system of IMPOSTURE, and our countrymen have visited India... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 428 pages
...Schools, nor " Palaces. If To-morrow we were expelled " from Indostan, Nothing would remain to " indicate that it had been possessed, during " the inglorious Period of our Dominion, by " any better Tenants than the Ouran-Outang " or the Tiger." This fine Burst of Imagination, even though we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state as an exception. 282 283 or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tyger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom we are whipping at... | |
 | Anglo-Indian literature - 1838 - 388 pages
...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...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, with the strictest... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 pages
...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...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, with the strictest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 614 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out...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 - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out...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) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 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...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,... | |
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