| William Forbes Skene - 1890 - 558 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, 1 Essay on the Nature and Actions goingunderthenameof Elves, Fairies, of the Subterranean Invisible... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1888 - 970 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood, but' we will never be content with a master." Sir H. Edwardes says, " Nothing is finer than their physique,... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1889 - 394 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." Sir H. Edwardes says, " Nothing is finer than their physique,... | |
| Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 Seiten
...old man to Elphinstone, who had urged the advantages of quiet »nd 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." REVENUES. — The revenues of Dost Mahommed Khan were estimated... | |
| 1892 - 412 Seiten
...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 alarms, 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... | |
| 1892 - 410 Seiten
...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, 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... | |
| James Sutherland Cotton - 1892 - 250 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' Apart from continual rivalries between Durani clansmen and... | |
| James Sutherland Cotton - 1896 - 254 Seiten
...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, we are content with blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' Apart from continual rivalries between Durani clansmen and... | |
| George Devereux Oswell - 1908 - 224 Seiten
...record the remark of an Afghan chief to Elphinstone on the characteristics of the people generally : ' 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 British Government has ever shown great patience in dealing... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1917 - 514 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...content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." — Vol. I. p. 279. Can anything be a clearer indication of... | |
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