 | Edmund Burke - 1784 - 118 pages
...foundation at Calcutta ia fcarcely worth naming as an exception. or ( 32 ) or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1784 - 660 pages
...defcription, has left fome monument, either of ftate or beneficence, behind him. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1786 - 376 pages
...conqueror of every other <lefcription, 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 poflefTed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang,... | |
 | 1790 - 694 pages
...difplayed in the Eaft, how ill founded the aOcrtion of a celebrated gentleman has been, viz. " That 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 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 pofleffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...refervoirs. Every other conqueror of every other defcription had left fome monument either of ftate or beneficence behind him ; but were we to be driven...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 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 poffeffed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 pages
...at Calcutta excepted) : England had built no bridges, made no highways, cut no navigations, dug no reservoirs. Every other conqueror, of every other...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...refervoirs. Every other conqueror of every other defcription had left fome monument either of ftate or beneficence behind him ; but were we to be driven...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... | |
 | 1833 - 652 pages
...bridges, cut no canals, dug out no reservoirs, formed no roads, and were we to be driven out of India, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outaug or the tiger." Since the period of... | |
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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. 
