| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pągines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists ; their administration was...was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder en a great scale, and men going at it blind — as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pągines
...and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength y is just an accident arising from the weakness of others....aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. '^TRe conquest of the earth, which mostly... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pągines
...devotion, was more vulnerable. The Roman practice of empire, Marlow affirms, was much cruder; they merely "grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got." Marlow here condemns Roman colonisation, but in the original manuscript he implicitly prefers it to... | |
| Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 pągines
...people. As for the colonial agents: "They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength...aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means... | |
| George Lamming - 1991 - 348 pągines
...a Heart of Darkness in Africa. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength...aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means... | |
| Frank Fiorenza - 2013 - 94 pągines
...what does he know? He refers to the company he will join when he calls them "conquerors," people who "grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got." He disapproves of them. Since they did not have "belief in the idea," Marlow rejects their ambitions... | |
| William G. Stairs - 1998 - 468 pągines
...administration was really a squeeze... They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force... They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what...just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a grand scale, and men going at it blind..." servants... At two o'clock we got under way after saying... | |
| William V. Spanos - 2000 - 318 pągines
...ancient Romans "were no colonists.... They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got." 59 It is no accident of history, I submit, that the words "culture," "cultivate," "acculturation,"... | |
| David A. Westbrook - 2004 - 364 pągines
...colonialization, but of imposing civilization on others, and finally, of living in civilization at all: They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what...aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly... | |
| Neil Lazarus - 2004 - 358 pągines
...transformation of their societies after attaining political independence. Resistance to colonial rule They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what...with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale . . . The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different... | |
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