| Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 pages
...of CHRISTIAN nations. My very soul deprecates war ! It is indeed a mighty and a monstrous evil — " a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." Ruin to finances is nothing compared with ruin to -morals. It depraves a nation ! Private differences... | |
| Thomas Thrush - 1833 - 306 pages
...sense for their guide, this must be the case; for nothing can be more certain than that ".... War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Permit me, my dear sir, to give you a summary of those reasons which plunge nations into war.— According... | |
| Edward Parsons - 1834 - 522 pages
...those numerous evils with which the world is degraded and desolated — it is called by the poet, " a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at" — and it never fails to remind us of the thunder of artillery, the shock of contending armies, the... | |
| 1834 - 600 pages
...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... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 686 pages
...cry havoc ! and slip the dogs of war." It would seem that the truth of Cowper'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 recognise but the native humanizing effects... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...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 not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands • Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1835 - 290 pages
...every class in the community; but to none is it such a curse as to the labourers." — Senior. • " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at," — CHAPTER VI. THE reader has seen, that in the Lectures on Wages which have been considered, Mr.... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 710 pages
...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... | |
| 1836 - 552 pages
...was not a republican — it was the subject of a monarchy, and no patron of novelties — who said, " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." A great majority of the wars which have desolated mankind, have grown either out of the disputed titles... | |
| Two brothers - 1837 - 112 pages
...days to the work of destruction ; and closed with a line of his poetical companion, Cowper : — " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." He, too, gave the old soldier a crown, but though equally loyal with my father, his advice was of a... | |
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