 | Asiatic journal - 1838
...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...period of our dominion, by any thing better than the orang-outang or the tiger." The censure is now inapplicable ; but it may be said, with the strictest... | |
 | 1851
...every other description has left some monument either of state or beneficence behind him. Were«?e to be driven out of India this day, nothing would...possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.' Doubtless when this eloquent invective was uttered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839
...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...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 we are whipping at school,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either 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." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The... | |
 | George Croly - 1840
...conqueror of every other description has left some monument of either 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." This philippic is justifiable no longer. The... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Baron Thomas Erskine Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, Jean Gabriel Peltier (defendant.) - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 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 anythin? better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1845
...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. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Baron Thomas Erskine Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, Jean-Gabriel Peltier - Drama - 1845 - 540 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. There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1845 - 426 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. There is nothing in the boys we send to India... | |
 | Andrew Stirling, James Peggs - Religion - 1846 - 416 pages
...Englishmen to settle in India." Hence Burke in his day thundered against his countrymen, exclaming, — " Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any better than the ourang-outang or the tiger." Heber more temperately, but scarcely less cuttingly, observed... | |
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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... 
