| Bernard Barton - 1824 - 352 páginas
...reach Of even humblest intellect; nor spurn The lesson it proclaims unto themselves in turn. XCIII. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Not on kings, alone, Should rest the censure therefore. Truth supplies, Conscience admits,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 páginas
...savages were furnished with hatchets, to cut and hack the flesh and bones of their fellow Chris. * War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — . - . . COWPEB. tians; of those who may be deemed in a political sense, their brothers,... | |
| 1826 - 490 páginas
...altogether. It was 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... | |
| 1827 - 544 páginas
...altogether. It was 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, VOL. v. 47 mankind, have grown either... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 620 páginas
...almost all history. Hence, it has been well expressed, as a result of the world's experience, that, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." According to Gibbun, (oh. Iviii.) " July 15, 1099, on a Friday, at three in the afternoon,... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 618 páginas
...almost all history. Hence, it has been well expressed, as a result of the world's experience, that, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." According to Gibbon, (ch. Iviii.) " July I5, 1099, on a Friday, at three in the afternoon,... | |
| Edmund Calamy - 1829 - 588 páginas
...first created Prussia into a kingdom. Frederic III. as if commenting on the comprehensive maxim : — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at," thus censures, even like " a son of peace," his grandsire's unfeeling and sanguinary ambition.... | |
| Edward Tagart - 1832 - 360 páginas
...long 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... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1835 - 290 páginas
...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," — CHAPTER VI. THE reader has seen, that in the Lectures on Wages which have been considered,... | |
| 1836 - 552 páginas
...was 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... | |
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