| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 686 pàgines
...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... | |
| Edward Parsons - 1834 - 522 pàgines
...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 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... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1835 - 290 pàgines
...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." — Cowper, * . CHAPTER VI. THE reader has seen, that in the Lectures on Wages which have been considered,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 710 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... | |
| 1836 - 552 pàgines
...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... | |
| Robert Huish - 1837 - 806 pàgines
...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... | |
| Two brothers - 1837 - 112 pàgines
...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... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1158 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1838 - 492 pàgines
...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... | |
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