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" Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage,... "
An Essay on the Best Means of Civilising the Subjects of the British Empire ... - Page 9
de John Mitchell - 1805 - 242 pages
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The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

Brian MacArthur - 1995 - 536 pages
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

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...
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Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions

Pico Iyer - 1997 - 344 pages
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The New Oxford Book of English Prose

John Gross - 1998 - 1064 pages
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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere

Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 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...
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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay

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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Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices Against England in the Eighteenth Century

T. O. McLoughlin - 1999 - 266 pages
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 pages
...India Bill Speech," 5:402-3. 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." 62 For the Mills and the others I cite, the political and imperial gaze is...
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Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History: 1760 - 1860

Jamal Malik - 2000 - 382 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 . . . and the cries of India are given to seas and winds to be blown about in...
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The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule: From the Rise of the ...

Romesh Chunder Dutt - 2000 - 466 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." The...
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