 Now upon what do you found your assertion that there is a national feeling against us, such as that against the French in Algiers or the Russians in Circassia ? Solely, so far as I know, because the turbulent Douranees have risen in rebellion. From Mookoor...  History of the War in Afghanistan - Page 599by Sir John William Kaye - 1851Full view - About this book
 | India - 1850 - 614 pages
...difficulty in overcoming the national feeling against British supremacy. " From Mukur to the Khyber Pass, all is content and ' tranquillity ; and wherever...received ' with respect and attention and welcome." — (August 2, 1841). Persisting in regarding the insurrections in the vicinity of Candahar, as transient... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - Afghan Wars - 1851 - 680 pages
...You say, " The state of the country causes me many an anxious thought — we may thresh the Douranecs over and over again, but this rather aggravates than...reduce them to subjection with their contemptible means, what should we have to fear from them? We have given them something to lose which they had not... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - Afghan Wars - 1851 - 688 pages
...risen in rebellion. From Mookoor to the Khybur Pass all is content and tranquillity, and wherever wa Europeans go we are received with respect, and attention,...reduce them to subjection with their contemptible means, what should we have to fear from them? We have given them something to lose which they had not... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - Afghan Wars - 1857 - 474 pages
...fact, our tenure is positively that of military possession, and the French iu Algiers, and the Russiana in Circassia, afford us an example on a small scale...reduce them to subjection with their contemptible means, what should we have to fear from them 1 We have given them something to lose which they had... | |
 | India - 1879 - 374 pages
...far as I know, because the turbulent Douranees have risen in rebellion. From Mookoor to the Kheiber Pass all is content and tranquillity, and wherever...insurrection of the Douranees is no new occurrence. In the time of Dost Mohammed they were always in arms,' and, as he could reduce them, the envoy thought... | |
 | Sir Henry Marion Durand, Henry Mortimer Durand - Afghan Wars - 1879 - 522 pages
...rebutted the existence of any difficulty in overcoming the national feeling against British supremacy. ' From Mookoor to the Khybur Pass all is content and...received with respect, and attention, and welcome.' Persisting in regarding the insurrections in the vicinity of Candahar as transient manifestations of... | |
 | India - 1882 - 538 pages
...difficulty in overcoming the national feeling against British supremacy. " From M6kfir to the Khyber Pass, all is content and " tranquillity ; and wherever...received "with respect and attention and welcome." — (August 2, 1841). Persisting in regarding the insurrections in the vicinity of Candahar, as transient... | |
 | Lionel James Trotter - 1893 - 250 pages
...help crowing over the ' cheering prospects ' which everywhere met bis gaze. 'From Mukin to the Khalbar Pass all is content and tranquillity ; and wherever...received with respect, and attention, and welcome.' He had just accepted the Government of Bombay in the room of Sir James Carnac ; and George Lawrence... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - India - 1908 - 236 pages
...: among these was Lady Macnaghten, the wife of the envoy. Macnaghten had again been able to write, 'All is content and tranquillity, and wherever we Europeans go, we are received with respect, attention, and welcome.' John Nicholson had formed a truer estimate of Afghan character, and he did... | |
 | George Fletcher MacMunn, Sir George Fletcher MacMunn - Afghan Wars - 1929 - 440 pages
...by General Nott ; and the fatuous Macnaghten wrote to a correspondent : " From Mookoor to the Khyber Pass all is content and tranquillity, and wherever we Europeans go we are received with attention, respect, and welcome. I think our prospects are most cheering. . . . The people are perfect... | |
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