 | John Jordan - 1857 - 500 pàgines
...glory of the king, while it impoverished the people, and made good the saying of the dramatist, War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. To gratify his warlike ambition, and lust of conquest, Edward the Third, and his far-famed son Edward... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1857 - 680 pàgines
...that can afflict humanity. However, it is ft result of the deficient intelligence of mankind. " War ia a game Which, were their subjects wise, Kings Would not play at." 'Still, while from the ordinary course of human and perverted impulse, wars must exist, whatever lessens... | |
 | 1885 - 676 pàgines
...and the consequences of war are contrary to the spirit of the Christian religion, and that " war is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." In the Church at the present time, we sorely want men of varied qualifications to lead the army of... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 pàgines
...behind Is not to die. NOTE. — See page 101 for the discussion of this sentence. 134 — 26. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Which is in the objective after at. If, understood, is the connective ; were wise is the predicate... | |
 | 1904 - 390 pàgines
...Cheng, who will respond to the toast : THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS OF THE DUTCH WITH OTHER NATIONS. "War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." . ADDRESS OF SIR CHENTUNG LIANG CHENG. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Holland Society:... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 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 woiild do -well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pàgines
...unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.2 S, BUTLER, Speeches in the Rump Parliament War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at, COWPER, The Task : The Winter Morning Walk, lines 187, 188 1War, war is still the cry, "war even to... | |
 | Walter Walsh - 1906 - 488 pàgines
...be destroyed but not regulated. Cowper saw where the power to destroy it resided, saying, But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. War demoralizes the politician by putting into his hands the godlike power of life and death, mere... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
