 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
 | 1838 - 388 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... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 páginas
...of every other description has left some monument of either 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 ourang outang or the tiger." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The first secure possession of... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 páginas
...of every other description has left some monument of either 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 ourang outang or the tiger." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The first secure possession of... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 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 anythin? better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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,... | |
 | 1845 - 554 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 ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse, than in the boys whom... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 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 ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse, than in the boys whom... | |
 | Andrew Sterling - 1846 - 480 páginas
...settle in India." Hence Burke in his day thundered against his countrymen, exclaming, — " 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 ourang-outang or the tiger." Heber more temperately, but scarcely less cuttingly,... | |
 | sir William Patrick Andrew - 1848 - 272 páginas
...and beneficence, which would for ever wipe away the fiercely indignant reproach, that, " ' were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...anything better than the ourang-outang, or the tiger.'" A reproach more undeserved we believe was never heard, and could only have been uttered by some canting... | |
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