 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
 | 1885 - 612 páginas
...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 would remain...period of our dominion by anything better than the orang-outang or the tiger." Of course the disposition of England toward the moral and religious condition... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1886 - 550 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. That was spoken at the close of 1 783. Two months before, Ryland had ' baptized in the river Nen, a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 598 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 school,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 488 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 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 - 624 páginas
...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 - 314 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 - 370 páginas
...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 - 608 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...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 - 208 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 - 536 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... | |
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