 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1829 - 238 sivua
...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sivua
...With schemes of monumental fame; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-liv'd themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the...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, T' extort... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sivua
...With schemes of monumental fame; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-lived themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the...wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 sivua
...they had the power, would exterminate by fire and sword, all who w ould oppose their unholy purposes. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make...mankind their sport, But war's a game, which, were the people wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T'cxtort their truncheons from the... | |
 | 1834 - 242 sivua
...to ' 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 recognize but the native humanizing effects... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 360 sivua
...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,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 sivua
...hanger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had aid, War la a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger.... | |
 | Thomas Thrush - 1833 - 306 sivua
...common 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 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 600 sivua
...to " 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... | |
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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. 
