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... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 421833Full view - About this book
| 1784 - 514 pages
...Were we to be driven out of Ir.dia this clay, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofldkii, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tisjer.' There is perhaps no part of his argument into which Mr. Burke lias thrown... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1784 - 660 pages
...Were we to be driven oat of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofTefled, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang 9r the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we fend to India worfc than the boys whom we... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1784 - 118 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofiefied, 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 fend to India worfe than the boys whom we... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been poflefTed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang, or the tyger. There is nothing in the boys we fend to India worfe than the hoys whom... | |
| English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been fmflcfTed during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger *." The contrary had long, previous to this afiVrtion.been eftabliihedin every part of India where... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofleffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. * The paltry foundation at Calcutta is fcarcely worth naming as an exception.... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been poffeffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger !" All this eloquence, however, was at prefent entirely ineffecbial, and... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...birds of prey and passage, with appetites Continually renewing for a food that was continually wasting. 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 tyger/ The peroration was an eulogium on his friend Fox as the mover of the bill.... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been poffeffed, 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 !fend to India worfe, than in the boys whom... | |
| John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been pos9 sessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger *." These representations are doubtless highly coloured ; but the deliberate... | |
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