 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 472 páginas
...Were we to be driven * The paltry foundation at Calcutta is scarcely worth naming as an exception. • out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 páginas
...conqueror 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...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... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 páginas
...conqueror 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...dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang ot1 the tiger." Mr. Burke then proceeded to take a more particular view of the administration of Warren... | |
 | 1829 - 666 páginas
...against his 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,...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger,' yet the monuments of state or beneficence left behind us would be comparatively... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 654 páginas
...his 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,...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger,' yet the monuments of state or beneficence left behind us would be comparatively... | |
 | Gavin Young - 1829 - 242 páginas
...against his 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,...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouranoutang or the tiger," yet the monuments of state or beneficence left behind us, would be comparatively... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 páginas
...other conqueror of every other description has left some monument of state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven' out of India this day, nothing...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger.* THE SONO OF THE LAST THE sun is blotted from the sky, The moon hath lost... | |
 | 1829 - 622 páginas
...other conqueror of every other description has left some monument of state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger.* THE SONG OF THE LAST BARD.! THE sun is blotted from the sky, The moon hath... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 páginas
...conqueror 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...thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.' * \ ot to adopt this magnificent exaggeration as a just statement, particularly of what might fairly... | |
 | 1836 - 664 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
