 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 - 51 ページJoseph Conrad 著 - 1903全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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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