| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...it is our friendship: our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys ahuost) govern there without sooiety, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social... | |
| High birth - 1821 - 48 pages
...mischievous; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy with the natives. Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in, one after another,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 654 pages
...England. ' Our conquest there,' says Burke, ' after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The Natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men, almost boys, govern there without society and without sympathy with the Natives : they have no more... | |
| Christianity - 1829 - 666 pages
...England. ' Our conquest there,' says Burke, ' after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The Natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men, almost boys, govern there without society and without sympathy with the Natives : they have no more... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...it is our friendship. Oar conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...there, without society, and without sympathy with the native. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England ; nor,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. and subordinate connexion with us. -^' First, Sir, permit me to observe, that native. They liave no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England ; nor,... | |
| Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy, with the natives. Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in, one after another,... | |
| Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...would convey infamy. The following representation is the forcible portraiture of Mr Burke himself. " The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...men (boys almost,) govern there without society, and almost without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people than if they... | |
| Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as .crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...there, without society, and without sympathy with the native. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England ; nor,... | |
| 1853 - 582 pages
...1st of July 1853. " Our conquest there, after twenty years, is " as crude as it was the first day. The natives " scarcely know what it is to see the...without society and without " sympathy with the natives. Every rupee of " profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever " to India. With us arc, no tributary... | |
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