 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 618 pàgines
...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 Gibbon, (ch. Iviii.) " July I5, 1099, on a Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - 1829 - 588 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1829 - 238 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Ladd - 1831 - 890 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 360 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Thrush - 1833 - 306 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 pàgines
...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... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
