 The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Strona 51autor: Joseph Conrad - 1903 - Liczba stron: 379Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - Liczba stron: 410
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea. • — something you can set up, and bow... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - Liczba stron: 366
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in/the idea — something you can set up, and bow down bfefore, and offer a sacrifice to. . . ." He... | |
 | N J Loftis - 1973 - Liczba stron: 132
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. ...... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - Liczba stron: 204
...obviously even more in need of justification than the merchant seaman. But what justification can there be? 'What redeems it is the idea only... An idea at the...back of it; not a sentimental pretence, but an idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to.' This seems to be a return... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - Liczba stron: 294
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only."16 Notice not only the explictness of the indictment but also the use of "blind" and "darkness."... | |
 | Rob Nixon - 1992 - Liczba stron: 240
...African tales, Naipaul finds contemporary counterparts to the weak colonials, "unredeemed by an idea, not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea," people, in Naipaul's words, "too simple for an outpost of progress." 38 Reading "An Outpost of Progress"... | |
 | G. W. Trompf - 1994 - Liczba stron: 574
...the taking it away from those who have a different or slighdy flatter nose than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.' Joseph Contrad Heart of Darkness 'For good and ill belong to man alone, when he stands alone on the... | |
 | Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo - 1995 - Liczba stron: 324
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ... (31-32) The colonist,... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - Liczba stron: 262
...imperialists themselves as a 'tribe' who superstitiously worship in a sort of elevated ancestor cult: 'What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - Liczba stron: 308
...away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What...pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (7). Conrad's fetishistic... | |
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