 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
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...possessed, during the inglorious 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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...possessed, during the inglorious 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,... | |
 | Andrew Sterling - Baptists - 1846 - 480 pages
...Englishmen to settle in India." Hence Burke in his day thundered against his countrymen, exclaming, — " Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Heber more temperately, but scarcely less cuttingly, observed... | |
 | sir William Patrick Andrew - 1848 - 272 pages
...utility and beneficence, which would for ever wipe away the fiercely indignant reproach, that, " ' were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang, or the tiger.'" A reproach more undeserved we believe was never... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. 2B ' I shall certainly endeavor to modulate myself... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument either of state or beneficence behind him. Were we to be driven out...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the orang-outang, or the tiger. the rite so long ago as the reign of Hnrree-Rao... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...thing 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out...thing 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,... | |
 | 1853 - 582 pages
...reservoirs. Every other " conqueror of every other description has left " some monument either of state or beneficence " behind him. Were we to be driven...period of our dominion, by any thing better " than the ouran-outang or the tigcr."||j| Such has been the effect of our having, to use again the words of Burke,... | |
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