...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...any great nor substantial purpose. The knowledge of the art of war was the avowed object But war's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at. in fact they were to be made into soldiers, not into men and philosophers. Although whole continents...

...mischievous to every class in the community ; but to none is it such a curse as to the labourers."* " War it a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." — Cateper. s Senior. 348 DUTR1BUTION. CHAPTER XI. DISTRIBUTION. GOVERNMENTS-CAPITAL.— LABOUR. INDIA...

...both nations, if they had been fully actuated by the feeling expressed in the lines of Cowper : — " "War is 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...

...other end in view but the personal aggrandizement of their king. ' It was well said by Cowper, that "War is a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." They are becoming fast wise enough to refuse their aid to unjust \vars; and now disputes among nations,...

...in completing a work of a more elaborate stamp. " War," said the poet, more than fifty years ago, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, " Kings would not play at." The time seems slowly to have come round in Europe when both rulers and people are, in some measure,...