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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."! "
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge - Page 170
1833
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Annual Register, Volume 121

Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 pages
...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,...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...
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An account of the kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary ...

Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power, " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...«• but we will never be content with a master." Another incalculable advantage of the present system is, that although it encourages little disorders,...
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Compendium of modern geography

Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...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....
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 20

Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 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,...blood, but we will never be content with a master." s The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished...
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The history of Greece, continued to the death of Alexander the ..., Volume 8

William Mitford - 1835 - 438 pages
...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,...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,...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 4

Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 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,...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...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 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...but we will never be content with a master."* The Highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished in Lowland...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 14

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 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,...but we will never be content with a master.'^ The highland chiefs, otherwise very frequently men of sense and education, and only distinguished in lowland...
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An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies ..., Part 1, Volume 1

Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1839 - 470 pages
...with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power : " We are eontent with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content...blood, but we will never be content with a master." Asia are so frequently subject. In Persia or India, the passions of a bad King are felt through every...
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Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal ..., Volume 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pages
...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,...
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