 the intellectual condition of the 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 would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious...  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Page 100edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1784 - 660 pages
...conqueror of every other defcription, has left fome monument, cither 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 poflefied, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that was continually wasting. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang, or the tyger.' The peroration was an eulogium on his. friend Fox as the mover of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 474 pages
...conqueror of 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 pofiefled, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...conqueror ' every other description has left some monument, either of ate or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...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 worse, than in the boys whom... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...conquerour of 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...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outangor the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than the boys whom we... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - India - 1808 - 384 pages
...conqueror of 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...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang outang or the tiger." » The only observation which this harangue can merit, is, that it is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this dav, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed,...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang, or the tiger. consequences of their conduct, which in good mhids (and many of theirs... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...conqueror of 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 remain to tell that it had been possessed, duiing the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang, or the tiger.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 466 pages
...conqueror of 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...period of our dominion, 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... | |
 | Asia - 1817 - 678 pages
...characteristic of Britain in the present day. It can no longer be asserted as it once was by Mr. Burke, that " were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." The extension of the ecclesia»tical influence of the state, and the augmentation... | |
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