 | 1784 - 514 pages
...Were we to be driven out of Ir.dia this clay, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofldkii, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tisjer.' There is perhaps no part of his argument into which Mr. Burke lias thrown... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1784 - 660 pages
...Were we to be driven oat of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofTefled, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang 9r the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we fend to India worfc than the boys whom we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1784 - 118 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofiefied, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we fend to India worfe than the boys whom we... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1786 - 376 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been poflefTed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang, or the tyger. There is nothing in the boys we fend to India worfe than the hoys whom... | |
 | 1790 - 694 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been fmflcfTed during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger *." The contrary had long, previous to this afiVrtion.been eftabliihedin every part of India where... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been pofleffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. * The paltry foundation at Calcutta is fcarcely worth naming as an exception.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been poffeffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger !" All this eloquence, however, was at prefent entirely ineffecbial, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 pages
...Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been poffeffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang or the tiger. There is nothing in the boys we !fend to India worfe, than in the boys whom... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been pos9 sessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran outang or the tiger *." These representations are doubtless highly coloured ; but the deliberate... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been pofieffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the oran-outang or the tiger ?" All this eloquence, however, was at prefent entirely ineffectual, and the... | |
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Every other 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, during the inglorious period of our... 
