 | Longmans, Green and co - 1886 - 306 pages
...answer to some one who had been pointing out the advantages of a settled administration, he said, ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood; but we will never be content with a master.' Belucliistuu, on the south-eastern corner of Irania, is inhabited by two distinct races, the Brahuis... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - 1890 - 558 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, we are content with blood, 1 Essay on the Nature and Actions goingunderthenameof Elves, Fairies, of the Subterranean Invisible... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1888 - 970 pages
...the whole, however, we cannot express a high opinion of the Afghans. An old man told Elphinstone : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but' we will never be content with a master." Sir H. Edwardes says, " Nothing is finer than their physique, or worse than their morale." Being Sunnite... | |
 | 1888 - 980 pages
...Afghan character and institutions was tersely expressed by an old man to Elphinstone, who had urged the advantages of quiet and security under a strong king: " We are content with discord, we aro content with alarms, we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a master." REVENUES.... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1889 - 394 pages
...the whole, however, we cannot express a high opinion of the Afghans. An old man told Elphinstone: " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master." Sir H. Edwardes says, " Nothing is finer than their physique, or worse than their morale." Being Sunnite... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 pages
...institutions was tersely expressed by an old man to Elphinstone, who had urged the advantages of quiet »nd security under a strong king: " We are content with...blood; but we will never be content with a master." REVENUES. — The revenues of Dost Mahommed Khan were estimated in 1857 at 4,000,000 rupees, or about... | |
 | 1892 - 414 pages
...and Rinaldo 1 What quotations include these names ? BRA, Providence, RI 5. What countryman said, " we are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master " ? Miss EP 6. What ancient writer said, " So exquisite is the cunning of mankind in gratifying their... | |
 | 1892 - 412 pages
...Bertram and Rinaldo 1 What quotations include these names ? BRA, Providence, RI 5. What countryman said, "we are content with discord, we are content with...blood ; but we will never be content with a master " ? Miss EP 6. What ancient writer said, " So exquisite is the cunning of mankind in gratifying their... | |
 | James Sutherland Cotton - 1892 - 250 pages
...sometimes misinterpreted — for they refer, not to a foreign invader, but to a domestic despot : ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' Apart from continual rivalries between Durani clansmen and Kazilbash, or Persian, nobles, who formed... | |
 | James Sutherland Cotton - 1896 - 254 pages
...sometimes misinterpreted — for they refer, not to a foreign invader, but to a domestic despot : ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' Apart from continual rivalries between Durani clansmen and Kazilbash, or Persian, nobles, who formed... | |
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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."! 
