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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... "
Report of proceedings at the seventh annual congress - Page 287
by National association for the promotion of social science - 1863
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Mr. Burke's Speech, on the 1st December 1783: Upon the Question for the ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1784 - 118 pages
...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...
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The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of ...

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 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...
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The Beauties of the British Senate: Taken from the Debates of the ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...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,...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 52

English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...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...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 5, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...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...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that was continually wasting. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain...possessed, 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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...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...
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An Essay on the Best Means of Civilising the Subjects of the British Empire ...

John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...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,...possessed, 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...
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