| Edmund Burke - 1784 - 118 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...conqueror of every other defcription had left fome monument either of ftate or beneficence behind him ; but 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... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pagine
...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...during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ouran-outang, or the tyger/ The peroration was an eulogium on his friend Fox... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 464 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagine
...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...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 send to India worse,... | |
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