 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
 | Asia - 1836 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wade - 1831 - 608 pages
...the 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...thing " better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been a system of IMPOSTURE, and our countrymen have visited India... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1831 - 610 pages
...the 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...thing " better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been a system of IMPOSTURE, and our countrymen have visited India... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 pages
...Arab, the Tartar, and the Persian, left behind them some monument of either state or beneficence; but were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...thing " better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Our only principle of government has been a system of IMPOSTURE, and our countrymen have visited India... | |
 | James Peggs - Ethics - 1832 - 550 pages
...countrymen in the 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...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 considered... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out...churches, palaces, and schools, whose want the orator BO strikingly deplores. A larger liberality will be wiser still; the extension of the Established Church... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conquerour of every other description has left some monument, either of state or no purpose but to be serviceable to in, it (teems...to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse, than in the boys whom we are * The paltry foundation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...conqueror of every mb'"1 scription has left some monument, cithrr rt •" as an exception. 282 283 or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tyger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India »one than in the boys whom we are whipping at... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state as an exception. i. r beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tyger. .. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom we are whipping... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conquerour of every other description has left some monument, either of state roic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse, than in the boys whom we are * The paltry foundation... | |
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