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. An idea at the... Complete Works - Página 51por Joseph Conrad - 1903Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 páginas
...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. 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 - 404 páginas
...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. 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... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 páginas
...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. An idea at the back...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 - 132 páginas
...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. 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 - 204 páginas
...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... | |
| Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 páginas
...once more he has to qualify what he has said by conceding that imperial conquest can be redeemed by "An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to." Unselfish belief in the idea, and a devotion to efficiency, constitute a rather weak and asymmetrical... | |
| George Levine - 1981 - 368 páginas
...passage, moreover, sustains the intensity of romance by almost contradicting itself. For, says Marlow, "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the...up and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (p. 51). Here again is the incompatibility between human consciousness and the evolutionary forces... | |
| Alfred J. Lopez - 2001 - 292 páginas
...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. 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... | |
| Joseph Hillis Miller - 2001 - 300 páginas
...conquest of the earth ... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much," Marlow goes on to add: "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental [ms: mouthing] pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set... | |
| Stephen Regan - 2001 - 594 páginas
...complexion or slightly flatrer noses than ourselves, is not a pretry thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimenral prerence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up,... | |
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