 Young men, boys almost, govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people than if they still resided in England, nor indeed, any species of intercourse, but that which is necessary to...  Scrapsبواسطة Francis Wrangham - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 392عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | James J. Novak - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...the first day. The native inhabitants scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman; young men, boys almost, govern there, without society,...necessary to making a sudden fortune, with a view to remote settlement. Animated with all the avarice of the age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they... | |
 | Sara Suleri Goodyear - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 241
...but it is our protection which destroys India. It was their enmity; but it is our friendship. . . . Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society...without sympathy with the natives. They have no more special habits with the people than if they still resided in England, — nor, indeed, any species... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider, Timothy Dykstal - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...for the Company's servants and other participants in trade with India. To Burke's famous insistence that "Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives" (402), one Joseph Price promptly retorted in a signed pamphlet: I am no stranger to that Gentleman's... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...Burke painted a morally outrageous picture of 'the desperate boldness of a few obscure young men': Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society...without sympathy with the natives. They have no more special habits with the people than if they still resided in England, - nor, indeed, any species of... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...conquered country their own. . . . But under the English government all this order is reversed. . . . Young men, boys almost govern there, without society and without sympathy with the natives. . . . Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth they roll in one after... | |
 | Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...govern "without society, and without sympathy with the natives." But what for Burke is more telling: "they have no more social habits with the people than if they resided in England."'4 They are, in a sense, commercial mercenaries, unmarked by the burdens and privileges... | |
 | Betsy Bolton - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...insisting on the importance of sentiment: England's ruinous "friendship" for India results from the fact that "[y]oung men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives" (¥.402). Taking power in the name of history coincides with a turn from farce toward sentiment and... | |
 | Chris Andrews - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 68
...English people could do well Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society and without sympathy with the natives. Quoted in Schamo./A History of Britain, 1603-1776. (2001) Source C 1 December 1783 Adapted from Edmund... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...is our friendship. Our conquest there after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day . . . Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society...the people, than if they still resided in England. ('East India Bill', ii, 194) Burke's hearers and readers on this occasion resided in England, and the... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...who had settled there: The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives. . .Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another;... | |
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