 | Hugh Edward Egerton - East Asia - 1897 - 324 pages
...Empire shall have passed away, these monuments of her virtue will endure when her triumphs have become an empty name. Let it still be the boast of Britain...mind, and calling them to life from the winter of oppression. Let the sun of Britain arise on these islands not to wither and scorch them in its fierceness,... | |
 | Sir Reginald Coupland - British - 1926 - 148 pages
...Empire shall have passed away, those monuments of her virtue will endure when her triumphs have become an empty name. Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light.' There was now no necessity for Raffles to prolong his stay at Singapore. In all essentials he had well... | |
 | Sir Reginald Coupland - British - 1926 - 148 pages
...Empire shall have passed away, those monuments of her virtue will endure when her triumphs have become an empty name. Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light.' There was now no necessity for Raffles to prolong his stay at Singapore. In all essentials he had well... | |
 | Sir Reginald Coupland - British - 1926 - 162 pages
...COLLEGE BEIT PROFESSOR OF COLONIAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1926 Let it still be the boast of Britain to •write her name in characters of light. E«vt t (west ON October 19, 1781, the day on which Cornwallis, hemmed in by land and sea, surrendered... | |
 | Sir Reginald Coupland - British - 1926 - 148 pages
...UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1926 COPY ADDED ORIGINAL TO BE RETAINED GOT 0 4 1994 Ze/ it still be the boast of Britain to •write her name in characters of light. • • ..• .••* Is;., ON October 19, 1781, the day on which Cornwallis, hemmed in by land and... | |
 | 1927 - 414 pages
...the words of Raffles himself which Professor Coupland makes the keywords of his excellent book : " Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light." " Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India." By William Crooke, CIE, late of the Indian Civil Service.... | |
 | Charles de Ledesma, Mark Lewis, Pauline Savage - Brunei - 2003 - 832 pages
...Drumgould Coleman. The Swissôtel holds an annual vertical marathon, in which hardy Sir Stamford Raffles Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her...was desolation, but as the gale of spring reviving ~ calling them to life e» from the winter of ignorance and oppression. •o If the time shall come... | |
 | Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo - Political Science - 2003 - 350 pages
...prosperity to the Company and its subjects alike. '2 Raffles wanted British imperial tule to be thought of "as the gale of spring reviving the slumbering seeds...calling them to life from the winter of ignorance."" In 1819, Raffles contacted Nathaniel Wallich, Company botanist at Sibpur, about establishing a botanic... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 676 pages
...will write her name in characters of light : she will not be remembered u the tempest, whose course is desolation ; but as the gale of spring, reviving. the slumbering seeds of the mind, and calling them into life from the winter of ignorance and oppression. Then, the Sun of... | |
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Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters of light ; let her not be remembered as the tempest whose course was desolation, but as the gale of spring, reviving the slumbering seeds of mind, and calling them to life from the winter... 
