 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1912 - 254 páginas
...had condemned war in Satire VII., 55-68 ; Cowper had spoken against it in the Task, in the lines: — "War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Though Byron, in Don Juan, was almost entirely a destructive critic of the political situation... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1915 - 388 páginas
...tine few who remain, I bequeath it to our children. WDH * Douglas Hamilton Gillette. INTRODUCTION. "War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." — Cowper's Task. THE world stands aghast at the deplorable condition of Europe today. A... | |
 | 1918 - 352 páginas
...that Mr. A . H. Forrest, who joined the Army in 1917, has been killed in action. By "EXCELSIOR" '' War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." POLITICS have been defined by one who knew as a " splendid jungle." The simile is arresting... | |
 | Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Peace Education Committee - 1924 - 90 páginas
...constructiveness of peace." — President Harding. From the Boston Herald, November 10, 1922, by permission. 76 War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. WILLIAM COWPER. Nothing has been done by war for the good of mankind that could not have been... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 páginas
..."engraven with an iron pen upon the rock for ever," that all the nations may read the truthful sentence. "War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." God gives us our Days, our times are in his hands; "It is of the Lords mercy we are not consumed... | |
 | M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 páginas
...peace." — Thomas Mann "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." — Ulysses S. Grant "War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." — William Cowper "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." — William Westmoreland... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1838 - 504 páginas
...mischievous to every class in the community ; but to none is it such a curse as to the labourers."* " War is a game, which were their subjects wise. Kings would not play at" — Cowper. • Senior. CHAPTER XI. DISTRIBUTION. GOVERNMENT.— CAPITAL— LA HOUR. INDIA.—... | |
 | 1842 - 694 páginas
...should attain popularity in France is a matter worth pondering on. Cowper, long ago, remarked : — " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." And the reading of the " experiences " of such a simple, good-hearted creature as Joseph... | |
 | 1831 - 546 páginas
...certain wars, expedient, no doubt, highly necessary, no doubt, and conducted by vast numbers, " But war is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." However, the subjects of the kings of Sodom and Gormorrah were not •wise, and so they went... | |
 | 1869 - 396 páginas
...and little boys and girls for their fathers. The gentle poet of Olney, William Cowper, has said, " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." But alas ! it is not kings alone that make wars. Sometimes a whole nation is roused by some... | |
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War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
