| 1827 - 544 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, VOL. v. 47 mankind, have grown either out of the... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 620 sider
...motto of 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, the day... | |
| Thomas Burton - 1828 - 618 sider
...motto of 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, the day... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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... | |
| Edmund Calamy - 1829 - 588 sider
...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. In the... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1829 - 238 sider
...on the other, owing to the wickedness or weakness of the aggressors. " War," says bishop Porteus, " is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at;" and the same pious moralist laments that, owing to the folly of mankind, " though one murder makes... | |
| William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 240 sider
...on the other, owing to the wickedness or weakness of the aggressors. " War," says bishop Porteus, " is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play atj" and the same pious moralist laments that, owing to (he folly of mankind, "* though one murder... | |
| William Ladd - 1831 - 890 sider
...cry havoc ! and slip the dogs of war.' It would seem that the truth of Cowpcr's remark, that ' war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at,' is beginning to be very generally admitted. In all this we recognize but the native humanizing effects... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 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... | |
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