 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...after the rights of hospitality have ceased; and, in fact, there is no point in the Afghaun character of which it is more difficult to get a clear idea,...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...after the rights of hospitality have ceased ; and, in fact, there is no point in the Afghan character which it is more difficult to get a clear idea, than...rapacity, which is observable in their conduct to strangsrs. In part of the country, where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Afghanistan - 1834 - 374 pages
...other traveller to be robbed and plundered. " There is no point in the Afghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinstone, " of which it is more difficult to get...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Afghanistan - 1834 - 480 pages
...other traveller to be robbed and plundered. " There is no point in the Afghan character," remarks Mr Elphinstone, " of which it is more difficult to get...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Afghanistan - 1834 - 380 pages
...robbed and plundered. " There is no point in the Afghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinstone, '^of whiqh it is more difficult to get a clear idea, than the...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | Scotland - 1841 - 1440 pages
...the Hindoo Koosh, or Cape Disappointment to sailors in Baffin's Biy. " But," says' Mr Elphinstone, "so much more do they attend to granting favours than to respecting rights, that the same Affghan who would plunder a traveller of a cloak if he had one, would give him a cloak if he had none."... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Afghanistan - 1842 - 360 pages
...other traveller to be robbed and plundered. " There is no point in the Afghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinstone, " of which it is more difficult to get...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Afghanistan - 1842 - 472 pages
...after the rites of hospitality have ceased ; and, in fact, there is no point in the Afghaun character of which it is more difficult to get a clear idea,...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1843 - 586 pages
...once beyond its influence. "There is no point in the Affghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinslone, " of which It is more difficult to get a clear idea,...granting favours than to respecting rights, that the same Anghan who would plunder a traveller of hie cloak if he had one, would give him ะป cloak if he had... | |
 | James Baillie Fraser - Afghanistan - 1901 - 366 pages
...othei traveller to be robbed and plundered. "There is no point in the Afghan character," remarks Mr. Elphinstone, "of which it is more difficult to get...which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where the government is weak, they seem to think it a matter of course to rob... | |
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Afghan character," remarks Mr Elphinstone, " of which it is more difficult to get a clear idea, than the mixture of sympathy and indifference, of generosity and rapacity, which is observable in their conduct to strangers. In parts of the country where... 
