 | Benjamin Brierley - 1881 - 256 páginas
...has to be satisfied wi' bein an orniment. We're gettin to think moore o' Lord Byron's advice — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Kiss. (Lanky, buss.) What used to be a warm salute ; neaw gettin int' a cowd ceremony. Disgustin... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. V.— The Winter Moming Walk. War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. VI.— The Winter Walk at Noon. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - 1883 - 224 páginas
...UNIT in the formation of a PUBLIC OPINION tending towards a WARLIKE POLICY. Cowper tells us that " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at;" and half the magnificent slaughterings recorded by the historian have arisen from the POMPOUS... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 páginas
...of a brother. It has become proverbial to assert, as we have already observed in these pages, that " war is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." But ancient and modern history alike teach us that the game is one which unbridled democracies,... | |
 | National Arbitration League - 1885 - 252 páginas
...their fine. This record of conviction serves as a certificate of exemption Irom military service. " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." DURING THE LAST THIRTY YEARS An average of 70,000 men per annum had been killed in battle.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 páginas
...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. " l But Cowper would not have said this had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 470 páginas
...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said— " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." l But Cowper would not have said this had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 456 páginas
...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said — " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." l But Cowper would not have said this had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of... | |
 | William Jones - 1899 - 456 páginas
...oppression, do not combine to protest against itr and insist upon disarmament. It used to be said, " War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at " ; but in Italy, under a free, constitutional Government, the subjects are, nominally at least,... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1900 - 1164 páginas
...pages on one of the folio-wing subjects : — 1. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 2. War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 3. International Exhibitions. 4. The game of golf. 5. The Queen's Park on a May day. 6. Admired... | |
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