 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...  The Quarterly Review - Página 271editado por - 1851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Allon - 1886
...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 would...anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger. That was spoken at the close of 1 783. Two months before, Ryland had ' baptized in the river Nen, a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892
...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 would...anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom we are whipping at school,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892
...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 would remain to tell that it To 929. To RICHARD CLARK. [London], January 27, 1784. Published in the Life, iv. 258. 930. DEAR SIR,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894
...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... | |
 | Samuel Haskell - 1895 - 302 páginas
...felt the nobler spirit of Burke, who on another occasion thus expressed his indignation: "If we were to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...period of our dominion by anything better than the orang-utan or the tiger. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument either... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901
...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 would...period of our dominion, by anything better than the orangoutang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 274 páginas
...built no bridges, made no roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Should we be driven out this day nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." But in the early part of this century all... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1904 - 466 páginas
...England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." But that reproach no longer exists. Some of the greatest bridges erected in modern times—such as... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 199 páginas
...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 would...anything better than the " ourang-outang or the tiger. " There is nothing in the boys we send to India " worse than in the boys whom we are whipping at "... | |
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