 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
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 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...possessed, during the inglorious 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... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 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...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang ot1 the tiger." Mr. Burke then proceeded to take a more particular... | |
 | Gavin Young - 1829 - 242 páginas
...countrymen in the East is not yet wiped away ; and though, perhaps, it cannot now be said, that " were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouranoutang or the tiger," yet the monuments of state or beneficence left... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 654 páginas
...in the East, is not yet •wiped away ; and though, perhaps, it cannot now be said, that, ' were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger,' yet the monuments of state or beneficence left... | |
 | 1829 - 666 páginas
...countrymen in the East, is not yet wiped away ; and though, perhaps, it cannot now be said, that, ' were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger,' yet the monuments of state or beneficence left... | |
 | 1830 - 606 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...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.' * N ot to adopt this magnificent exaggeration... | |
 | 1836 - 664 páginas
...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 would...possessed, 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... | |
 | John Wade - 1831 - 608 páginas
...Tartars, and the Persians, left behind them some monument of either state or beneficence ; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing " better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been... | |
 | John Wade - 1831 - 610 páginas
...Tartars, and the Persians, left behind them some monument of either state or beneficence ; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing " better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been... | |
 | James Peggs - 1832 - 550 páginas
...East, nearly fifty years ago, and the cause of which is far from being rolled away ; — " Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any better than the ouran-outang or the tiger!" One of the greatest antidotes to the evils previously... | |
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