...risk, — and feel, and suffer less, And see not what they cause of vice, and deep distress. XCIV. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Suffer me, again, Reader! to quote a poet whom I prize; Nor fancy such a repetition vain. Of pride...

...from Cowper, is a text which would furnish a still more ample commentary than he founds upon it : ' War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.' We shall not enter further into the argument of the leading poem. We applaud the Author's spirit and...

...Itonea. Some seek diversion in the tented field, Aud 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...

...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 T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...

...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...

...sad, would'st slowly sink away. NOTE BOOK. 47 ON THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE OF GOING TO WAR. i . " War's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well, To extort their truncheon from the puny grasp f ' Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are...

...The savages were furnished with hatchets, to cut and hack the flesh and bones of their fellow Chris* War is a game, which, were their subjects Wise, Kings would not play at. • COWPEB. tians; of those who may be deemed in a political sense, their brothers, sisters, and children....

...reach Of even humblest intellect; nor spurn The lesson it proclaims unto themselves in turn. XCIII. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Not on kings, alone, Should rest the censure therefore. Truth supplies, Conscience admits, when candour...

...savages were furnished with hatchets, to cut and hack the flesh and bones of their fellow Chris. * War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — . - . . COWPEB. tians; of those who may be deemed in a political sense, their brothers, sisters,...

...valuing our understanding as naught. WAR. COMMON MILFOIL, OR YARROW.—Achillea Millefolium. " War's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Cowper. The ancients named this plant after Achilles, the celebrated Grecian hero, on which account...