...few days before. He loves nothing so much as freedom. An Afghan once said to an English general, ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' A British army was sent to Afghanistan in 1838, to force the people to take back a king called Shah...

...descanted on the blessings of security under a strong government. The old man replied with warmth : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master. "f Our first attempt, about forty years ago, to impose upon them a master, leading as it did to the...

...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,...

...descanted on the blessings of security under a strong government. The old man replied with warmth : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."f Our first attempt, about forty years ago, to impose upon them a master, leading as it did...

...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...

...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...

...largely from him. " All Afghans are equal." " We are content," said a leading chief to Elphinstone, " with discord ; we are content with alarms ; we are...blood ; but we will never be content with a master." " In India every movement originates with the Government or its agents, and the people absolutely go...

...of a foreign invasion. ' We are content,' so said an old Afghan chief to Mountstuart Elphinstonc, ' with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content...blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' There was seated on the throne of Cabul, in the year 1837, Dost Mohammed, a man of genius, and one...

...of a foreign invasion. ' We are content,' so said an old Afghan chief to Mountstuart Elphinstone, ' with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a foreign master.' There was seated on the throne of Cabul, in the year 1837, Dost Mohammed, a man of...

...Afghdn character and institutions was tersely expressed by an old man to Elphinstone, who had urged the advantages of quiet and security under a strong...blood, but we will never be content with a master.' Revenues. — The revenues of Dost Muhammad Khdn were estimated in 1857 at 4,000,000 rupees, or about...