 | Charles Nash - 1843 - 412 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." Mr. Elphinstone also remarks upon the similarity between the... | |
 | George Buist - 1843 - 314 Seiten
...very intelligent old man, of the tribe of Meankbail, the superiority of a quitt and secure life, under a powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and the blood which they owed 10 their present system. The old man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856
...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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, two or more works]) - 1856
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856
...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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866
...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." Before the death of Shah Soojah the government was a limited... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866
...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." Before the death of Shah Soojah the government was a limited... | |
 | 1870
...very intelligent old man of the tribe of Meoankhail, the superiority of a quiet and secure life, under a powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and...concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power : ' Wo are content with discord, we are content with alarms, wo are content with blood, but wo never... | |
 | John William Shaw Wyllie - 1875 - 371 Seiten
...of a quiet and secure life, under a powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and the bloodshed which they owed to their present system. The old man...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... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876
...he urged • Malleson: "Herat" (1880). the advantages of quiet and security under a strong king, " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood; but we will never be content with a master." Since those days we have had abundant experience of the Afghans,... | |
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