 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 pages
...realising the frank sincerity of the profession of faith once made by an old native to Elphinstone : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master " — a remark which he may have had in mind when he summed up his estimate of the Afghan character... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power, " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...«• but we will never be content with a master." Another incalculable advantage of the present system is, that although it encourages little disorders,... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...old man of this class, on the superiority of a quiet life, under a powerful monarch, he replied, " We are content with discord ; we are content with alarms ; we are content with bloodshed ; but, we will never be content with a master." What religion prevails in Cabul? Mahometanism.... | |
 | 1833 - 540 pages
...on the freedom from alarm, blood, and discord, which must ensue from a more steady government, was ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master.' The land is cultivated by tenants, who pay rent, or by persons who give half the produce to the landlord,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pages
...laws, would have received an answer something similar to the indignant reply of the old Afghaun ; " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master." 2 The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 438 pages
...abhorrence. The same wild spirit of independence characterizes the Afghans, who now possess the same land. " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master," was the reply which was made by an Afghan to a British envoy' who had dwelt upon the discord, alarm,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...laws, would have received an answer something similar to the indignant reply of the old Afghaun ; " We are content with discord , we are content with...blood, but we will never be content with a master."* The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...laws, would have received an answer something similar to the indignant reply of the old Afghaun ; ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master.'^ The highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished in... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1839 - 470 pages
...with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power : " We are eontent with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content...blood, but we will never be content with a master." Asia are so frequently subject. In Persia or India, the passions of a bad King are felt through every... | |
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We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."! 
