 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. With... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever to India. With... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting." Here the English are called "waves" and "birds of prey." Some of the finest... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights nor put a limit to its range. This it is which strikes me most. I have often tho is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. With... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever to India. With... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument either... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. • • . • • But we are in general, sir, so little acquainted with Indian... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1897 - 176 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever to India. Their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. With... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...there is nothing before the " eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect " of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with " appetites continually renewing for a food that is " continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made " by an Englishman is lost for ever to India.... | |
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Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage,... 
