 | 1900 - 872 pàgines
...not much account really. They were no colonists, their •administration was merely a squeeze, •a*d nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence, but an idea;... | |
 | 1899 - 1284 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists ; their administration was...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretence but an idea... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 394 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists ; their administration was...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretense but an idea... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pàgines
...could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder en a great scale, and men going at it blind — as is...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea;... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pàgines
...saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists ; their administration was...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretence but an idea... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 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...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea;... | |
 | N J Loftis - 1973 - 132 pàgines
...The narrator and surrogate for the author in Conrad's stories. In The Heart of Darkness Marlowe says: The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental belief in the idea —... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pàgines
...become redemptive labour is now reduced to a merely mechanical means of survival. Taken all in all, 'the conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.' The imperialist is obviously even more in need of justification than the merchant seaman. But... | |
 | Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pàgines
...king" [HDN, 7]) and thus gave a more universal implication to Marlow's judgment immediately following: "The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the...not a pretty thing when you look into it too much" (50-51). But when Marlow observes a map in the company's waiting room, he comments: "There was a vast... | |
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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. 
