 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a master " — a remark which he may have had in mind when he summed... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 Seiten
...very intelligent old man of the tribe of Meeankhail, the superiority of a quiet and secure life, under a powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and...with alarms, we are content with blood, «• but we will never be content with a master." Another incalculable advantage of the present system is, that... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1822 - 658 Seiten
...their present system, the old man concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power, by saying " we are content with discord ; we are content with alarms; we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a master." Mi. Elphinstone has considered the pour and centre of the... | |
 | 1833 - 540 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.' The land is cultivated by tenants, who pay rent, or by persons... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 438 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master," was the reply which was made by an Afghan to a British envoy'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 Seiten
...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, but we will never be content with a master." 2 The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 Seiten
...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, but we will never be content with a master."* The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense... | |
 | 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 Seiten
...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, but we will never be content with a master.'^ The highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1839 - 470 Seiten
...very intelligent old man of the tribe of Meaunkhail, the superiority of a quiet and secure life, under a powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and...indignant harangue against arbitrary power : " We are eontent with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content... | |
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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. 
