 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 - Page 271edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1784 - 118 pages
...at Calcutta ia fcarcely worth naming as an exception. or ( 32 ) or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1784 - 660 pages
...defcription, has left fome monument, either of ftate or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...every other <lefcription, has left fome monument, either of ftate or beneficence, behind him. 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,... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...difplayed in the Eaft, how ill founded the aOcrtion of a celebrated gentleman has been, viz. " That 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...every other defcription has left fome monument, either of ftate or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...every other defcription had left fome monument either of ftate or beneficence behind him ; but 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...every other defcription has left fome monument, either of ftate or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...every other description, had left some monument of state or of beneficence behind him ; but 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...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 any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - India - 1808 - 384 pages
...every other description, had left some monument of state or of beneficence behind him ; but, 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 ourang outang or the tiger." » The only observation which this harangue... | |
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