| William James Dawson - 1906 - 324 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food which is continually wasting." Then they return home, glutted with wealth, "and their prey is lodged... | |
| Henry Montagu Butler - 1909 - 346 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new nights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting." Convinced that the Company are wholly incorrigible, Burke will not listen... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1914 - 554 pages
...of Burke in his speech on Fox's East India Bill about the depredations of the Company's servants, ' birds of prey and passage with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting ', while the cries of India were ' given to the seas and winds to be blown about... | |
| Richard Orlando Jolliffe - 1919 - 130 pages
...there had been "nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that was continually wasting."64 The cruel extortions of many generations had seriously affected the ability of the petty... | |
| John Lyle Morison - 1928 - 346 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ever to India. With... | |
| James J. Novak - 1993 - 256 pages
...there is no other thing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. Nothing... | |
| Sara Suleri Goodyear - 1992 - 241 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. (CW, vol. 2, p. 462) The youthfulness of colonialism, its availability to the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost forever to India. With... | |
| Paul Keen - 1999 - 299 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting. (Quoted in Suleri, Rhetoric, 32) The central point, for Burke, was the damage... | |
| Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - 288 pages
...and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect, of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.32 This distinctive alienness of the English, which Burke sees as a failure... | |
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