 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Raoul Jacobs - 2004 - 318 pages
...' Burke kritisierte eindringlich die bisherige Praxis des Empires in Indien: „The natives scanely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives. . . . Every rupee of proßt made... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 pages
...distinctive feature of British rule in India, in contrast to previous conquerors who had settled there: The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...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;... | |
 | Daniel O'Quinn - 2005 - 444 pages
...account of the Company's shortcomings, focuses on the immaturity of the East India Company functionaries: The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey...almost) govern there, without society, and without the sympathy of the natives. . . . Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the gray head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern...society and without sympathy with the natives. They have 10 more social habits with the people than if they still resided in England — nor, indeed, any species... | |
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Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. 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. 
