...man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power : ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but wo never will be content with a master.' " 1 What is to be done with fellows of this kidney ? We cannot...

...man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded an indignant harangue against arbitrary power : ' We are content with 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...

...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,...blood; but we will never be content with a master." Since those days we have had abundant experience of the Afghans, but nothing has transpired which leads...

...few days before. He loves nothing so much as freedom. An Afghan once said to an English general, ' We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood ; but we will never be content with a master.' A British army was sent to Afghanistan in 1838, to force the people to take back a king called Shah...

...could be reached. The latter were well described by one of their own chiefs, when he told Elphinstone, "We are content with discord, we are content with...blood, but we will never be content with a master." The interval had been spent in attempts to conciliate the inhabitants, and when they rose in November,...

...descanted on the blessings of security under a strong government. The old man replied with warmth : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...blood, but we will never be content with a master. "f Our first attempt, about forty years ago, to impose upon them a master, leading as it did to the...

...could be reached. The latter were well described by one of their own chiefs, when he told Elphinstone, "We are content with discord, we are content with...blood, but we will never be content with a master." The interval had been spent in attempts to conciliate the inhabitants, and when they rose in November,...

...descanted on the blessings of security under a strong government. The old man replied with warmth : " We are content with discord, we are content with alarms,...content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."f Our first attempt, about forty years ago, to impose upon them a master, leading as it did...

...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...

...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...