 | George Buist - 1843 - 352 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,...blood — but we will never be content with a master.' ' " The plain truth is, that we are breaking down, by our aggression, the most formidable portion of... | |
 | Charles Nash - 1843 - 436 pages
...equal laws, would have received an answer somewhat similar to the indignant reply of the Affghan : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master." Mr. Elphinstone also remarks upon the similarity between the customs of the two countries, and observes,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 242 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...steady government, in the security it gives from alarm, discords, and bloodshed, the Afghans replied, " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we shall never be content with a master." 7. History. This region, under the names of Arachosia, Paropamisus,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 pages
...the gMirity it gives from alarm, discords, and bloodshed, the Afghans replied, " We are content •nb discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we shall never be .«intent with a master." |7. History. This region, under the names of Arachosia, Paropamisus,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 pages
...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." Before the death of Shah Soojah the government was a limited monarchy. The king made peace and war;... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 598 pages
...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." Before the death of Shah Soojah the government was a limited monarchy. The king made peace and war;... | |
 | 1870 - 770 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, we are content with blood, but wo never will be content with a master.' " 1 What is to be done with fellows of this kidney ? We cannot... | |
 | John William Shaw Wyllie - 1875 - 426 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, we are content with bloodshed, but we never will be content with a master.' l What is to be done with a nation of this... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1879 - 882 pages
...could be reached. The latter were well described by one of their own chiefs, when he told Elphinstone, "We are content with discord, we are content with...blood, but we will never be content with a master." The interval had been spent in attempts to conciliate the inhabitants, and when they rose in November,... | |
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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."! 
