...when her Empire shall have passed away, these monuments of her virtue will endure when her triumphs have become an empty name. Let it still be the boast...mind, and calling them to life from the winter of oppression. Let the sun of Britain arise on these islands not to wither and scorch them in its fierceness,...

...Drumgould Coleman. The Swissôtel holds an annual vertical marathon, in which hardy Sir Stamford Raffles Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her...was desolation, but as the gale of spring reviving ~ calling them to life e» from the winter of ignorance and oppression. •o If the time shall come...

...prosperity to the Company and its subjects alike. '2 Raffles wanted British imperial tule to be thought of "as the gale of spring reviving the slumbering seeds...calling them to life from the winter of ignorance."" In 1819, Raffles contacted Nathaniel Wallich, Company botanist at Sibpur, about establishing a botanic...

...monuments of her virtue will endure when her triumphs shall have become an empty name. Let it -ti !1 be the boast of Britain to write her name in characters...winter of ignorance and oppression. Let the sun of Britain arise on these islands, not to wither and scorch them in its fierceness, but like that of her...

...will write her name in characters of light : she will not be remembered u the tempest, whose course is desolation ; but as the gale of spring, reviving. the slumbering seeds of the mind, and calling them into life from the winter of ignorance and oppression. Then, the Sun of...