...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,...

...men see the folly, as wel 1 as the sin of war ? Well may we say, with the immortal Cowper, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at."— 4 OBSTACLES AND OBJECTIONS tolerate a system which probably has destroyed more lives in one day, than...

...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,...

...DUE TO OUR PLAN. CHAPTER VII. PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS. CHAPTER VIII. APPEAL TO ALL CHRISTIANS. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Camper. " A Congress of Nations, for the settlement of the principles of international law, and the...

...for the maintenance of peace. If anу wisdom was to be derived from experience, it was that " War was a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." It was a fc-arful game to play at — it was a dreadful game to lose ut. He had no difficulty whatever,...

...Art.) 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. (Jf. Cowper's Task.) \. PLEASURE, 2. JOY, 3. DELIGHT, 4. CHARM. 1. aSergnuijen ; 2. Cveufcc; 3. ЯЗегдпидш,...

...fades in the snn — the false glories of the world. Great princes have great playthings ; " But war's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at." The book closes with the highest sense of freedom. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And...

...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. IBut 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...

...hell is infused into the com-. position of human nature. Well does the poet remark that — " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise. Kings would not play at,"— But so long as there are to be found real or imagined causes for lighting the torch of discord, so long...

...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 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 handa Of heroes, whose infirm and baby...