 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, ~really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely...were conquerors, 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... | |
 | Hugh F. Kearney - 1989 - 344 pàgines
...saves us is eff1ciency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely...conquerors and for that you want only brute force. . . . The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different... | |
 | John Andrew Bernstein - 1993 - 236 pàgines
...of the Heart of Darkness: "They were conquerors, and for that you -want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength...an accident arising from the weakness of others." Among the major thinkers troubled by "levelling," only Kierkegaard was to see that the threatened collapse... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency (. . .) They (the Romans) were no colonists. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute...just an accident arising from the weakness of others' (HD 10). In this well-known passage, Marlow draws a distinction between the conqueror and the colonist... | |
 | Kostas Myrsiades, Jerry McGuire - 1995 - 428 pàgines
..."What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were no account really. They were no colonists, their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more" (10). 9 Burroughs describes King Leopold of Belgium as an "arch hypocrite" whose officers practice... | |
 | J. H. Stape - 1996 - 292 pàgines
...'darkness', the text's central metaphor.7 Although the Romans 'were men enough to face the darkness . . . They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute...just an accident arising from the weakness of others' (pp. 139—40). This generalizing statement obviously refers to the Romans, but also includes a proleptic... | |
 | Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency - the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely...conquerors, and for that you want only brute force" (31). The frame narrator, too, pays tribute to the empire-building past of England: "Hunters of gold... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1999 - 274 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely...strength is just an accident arising from the weakness 1 Falernian wine] famous ancient wine from the Falernus Ager district, inland from what is now Naples.... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow - 2000 - 298 pàgines
...uses by way of contrast with the word conquerors when referring to the Roman subjugation of Britain: "They were no colonists, their administration was...conquerors, and for that you want only brute force" (HD 10, my italics). Here "colonists" is clearly meant to be thought of favorably and "conquerors"... | |
 | Ian Watt - 2000 - 230 pàgines
...has been one of the dark places of the earth' (48). The Roman settlers, though, were, Marlow thinks, 'no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze,...and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors.' Marlow goes on to speak of how, in his view, 'The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking... | |
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Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. 
