...almost all history. Hence, it has been well expressed, as a result of the world's experience, that, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." According to Gibbun, (oh. Iviii.) " July 15, 1099, on a Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day...

...first created Prussia into a kingdom. Frederic III. as if commenting on the comprehensive maxim : — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at," thus censures, even like " a son of peace," his grandsire's unfeeling and sanguinary ambition. In the...

...on the other, owing to the wickedness or weakness of the aggressors. " War," says bishop Porteus, " is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at;" and the same pious moralist laments that, owing to the folly of mankind, " though one murder makes...

...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport But war 'sa game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would...do well, T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief; and who sport, Because men...

...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...

...on the other, owing to the wickedness or weakness of the aggressors. " War," says bishop Porteus, " is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play atj" and the same pious moralist laments that, owing to (he folly of mankind, "* though one murder...

...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would...would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief; and who spoil, Became men...

...cry havoc ! and slip the dogs of war.' It would seem that the truth of Cowpcr's remark, that ' war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at,' is beginning to be very generally admitted. In all this we recognize but the native humanizing effects...

...long enjoyment of the blessings of peace had probably strengthened his sympathy with the sentiment, ' War is a game, Which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.' In 1827, Captain Hey wood's health began to decline, but he had no particular complaint until November,...

...hanger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had aid, War la a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger....