 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
 | 1877 - 74 pages
...no schools. Every other conqueror has left some monument of state or beneficence behind him. Were we driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that, during the inglorious period of our dominion, it had been possessed by anything better than the ourang-outang... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 506 pages
...palaces, no schools, built no bridges, made no reservoirs, and that, were we suddenly driven out of India, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the orangoutang or tho tiger.' Our sportsmen in India have left but few hyasnas,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1879 - 464 pages
...said: " England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs 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." But that reproach no longer exists. Some of the... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 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...possessed during the inglorious period of our dominion by anything better than the ourangoutang or the tiger. "There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | Sir William Patrick Andrew - India - 1884 - 482 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Sir William Patrick Andrew - India - 1884 - 418 pages
...beneficence, which would 152 CONCLUSION. 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... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 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...possessed during the inglorious period of our dominion by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger. CLXVII. You ascended the throne with a declared,... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1884 - 482 pages
...schools, nor palaces. If to-morrow we were expelled from Hindostan, nothing would remain to indicate that it had been possessed during the inglorious period of our dominion by any better tenants than the ourangoutang or the tiger." This fine burst of imagination, even though I consider... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1884 - 482 pages
...schools, nor palaces. If to-morrow we were expelled from Hindostan, nothing would remain to indicate that it had been possessed during the inglorious period of our dominion by any better tenants than the ourangoutang or the tiger." This fine burst of imagination, even though I consider... | |
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