| Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 σελίδες
...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 up his estimate of the Afghan character... | |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 σελίδες
...thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power, " We are content with discord, we are content 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 although it encourages little disorders,... | |
| 1833 - 540 σελίδες
...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 who give half the produce to the landlord,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 σελίδες
...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 and education, and only distinguished... | |
| William Mitford - 1835 - 438 σελίδες
...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' who had dwelt upon the discord, alarm,... | |
| 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 σελίδες
...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 and education, and only distinguished in... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 σελίδες
...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 and education, and only distinguished in... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 σελίδες
...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 and education, and only distinguished in... | |
| 1842 - 528 σελίδες
...had listened to him, closed an indignant oration by saying :— " We are content with discord, we arc content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master." The extreme simplicity of their social constitution undoubtedly leads to many evils. The laws are adapted... | |
| 1842 - 916 σελίδες
...of a firm and established government under a powerful monarch, " 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 suddenness and magnitude of the disaster seem at first utterly to have paralysed the minds... | |
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