 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 sider
...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, sisters,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1824 - 352 sider
...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, when candour... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 520 sider
...The 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, sisters, and children.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field. And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's 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 and baby... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 sider
...bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 sider
...sad, would'st slowly sink away. NOTE BOOK. 47 ON THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE OF GOING TO WAR. i . " War's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well, To extort their truncheon from the puny grasp f ' Of heroes, whose infirm and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 sider
...Itonea. Some seek diversion in the tented field, Aud make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's 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 and baby... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 sider
...valuing our understanding as naught. WAR. COMMON MILFOIL, OR YARROW.—Achillea Millefolium. " War's a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Cowper. The ancients named this plant after Achilles, the celebrated Grecian hero, on which account... | |
 | 1826 - 490 sider
...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 titles... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 sider
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 185 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Nations would do well, T" extort their truncheons ftom the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
