 The Tartar invasion was mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as .crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see...  The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - Page 79edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...their enmity, but it is our friendship: our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is...see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys ahuost) govern there without sooiety, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social... | |
 | High birth - 1821 - 48 pages
...mischievous; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy with the natives. Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in, one after another,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pages
...their enmity, but it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what . it is to see the gray head of an Englishman. Young men — boys almost — govern there, without society, and without... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 654 pages
...dissipated in England. ' Our conquest there,' says Burke, ' after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The Natives scarcely know what it is...to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men, almost boys, govern there without society and without sympathy with the Natives : they have no more... | |
 | 1829 - 666 pages
...dissipated in England. ' Our conquest there,' says Burke, ' after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The Natives scarcely know what it is...to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men, almost boys, govern there without society and without sympathy with the Natives : they have no more... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...their enmity, but it is our friendship. Oar conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is...there, without society, and without sympathy with the native. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England ; nor,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...their enmity, but it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was n a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. -^' First, Sir, permit me to observe, that native. They liave no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England ; nor,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 570 pages
...mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy, with the natives. Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in, one after another,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...their enmity, but it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the gray head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...would convey infamy. The following representation is the forcible portraiture of Mr Burke himself. " The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...men (boys almost,) govern there without society, and almost without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people than if they... | |
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