| Two brothers - 1837 - 112 páginas
...days to the work of destruction ; and closed with a line of his poetical companion, Cowper : — " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." He, too, gave the old soldier a crown, but though equally loyal with my father, his advice... | |
| 1838 - 492 páginas
...both nations, if they had been fully actuated by the feeling expressed in the lines of Cowper : — " "War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes; whose infirm... | |
| William Huffington - 1839 - 500 páginas
...other 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... | |
| Sir Henry Havelock - 1840 - 422 páginas
...in 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... | |
| Henry Tyrwhitt Jones Macnamara - 1841 - 436 páginas
...PLAN. CHAPTER VI. THE PREFERENCE DUE TO OUR PLAN. CHAPTER VII. PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS. CHAPTER VIII. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Cowper. " A Congress of Nations, for the settlement of the principles of international law,... | |
| 1842 - 292 páginas
...essence of 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... | |
| 1842 - 144 páginas
...should be dismayed. Thus lightly could he sport with human life. Surely, in all ages of the world, " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well To' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm... | |
| Philip Bury Duncan - 1844 - 128 páginas
...would disappear with their removal ; and general applause followed the humane sentiment of the poet, 'War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.' " But when the matter was put to the test, experience soon demonstrated — what had long... | |
| Philip Bury Duncan - 1844 - 136 páginas
...God's grace) play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard."* * Rut Cowpcr says — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." In 731 ye.irs «r? have had 2«« years of warfare with Frm:e. C One of the early frivolous... | |
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