...With schemes of monumental fame ; and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short Uv'd 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...

...control. How important then that the people should be "-wise in time !" and if it be true that "War is a game ; which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at" ; how great is the responsibility which rests upon every wise citizen, and every true patriot, so to...

...drawing nothing up." " The town has tinged the country." " Life spent in indolence and therefore sad." " But war's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." " Weak to perform, though mighty to pretend." " Power usurped Is weakness when opposed." " Made poetry...

...bitter fruits. War, with all its horrors and miseries, hath resulted from the ignorance of nations:— ' But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. ' We have seen, yea ages have groaned under, the evils which a wrong public opinion, or at times an...

...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 1" extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...

...all countries. The REV. T. SPENCEII, of Bath, observed, the remark has been often, made, that "War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." But he had not heard the proper inference drawn from these words. It would seem to follow that it is...

...design great God of Hosts ! Xor let thy creatures fall unpitied victims At ambition's shriue." They seek diversion in the tented field. And make the sorrows...sport. But war's a game, which were their subjects wise King's would not play at. Glory is n bombastic term unworthy to be used by great nations. Napoleon...

...indolence, and therefore sad, With schemes of monumental fame, and sought By pyramids and mausolean pomp, Short-lived themselves, to immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war.'sa game, which, were their subjects wise,...

...schemes of monumental fame ; and sought By pyramids and mausoleum pomp, Short-lived themselves, t' immortalize their bones. Some seek diversion in the...wise, Kings would not play at. Na'tions would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified...

...indolence, and therefore sad,) With schemes of monumental fame ; and sought, By pyramids and mausoleum pomp, Short-lived themselves, to' immortalize their...field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. — COWPER. To this latter class of princes Alexander belonged. War had become to him a species of...