...long enjoyment of the blessings of peace had probably strengthened his sympathy with the sentiment, ' War is a game, Which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.' In 1827, Captain Hey wood's health began to decline, but he had no particular complaint until November,...

...hanger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations. Cowper, about sixty years ago, had aid, War la a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. But Cowper would not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger....

...of CHRISTIAN nations. My very soul deprecates war ! It is indeed a mighty and a monstrous evil — " a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." Ruin to finances is nothing compared with ruin to -morals. It depraves a nation ! Private differences...

...sense for their guide, this must be the case; for nothing can be more certain than that ".... War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Permit me, my dear sir, to give you a summary of those reasons which plunge nations into war.— According...

...those numerous evils with which the world is degraded and desolated — it is called by the poet, " a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at" — and it never fails to remind us of the thunder of artillery, the shock of contending armies, the...

...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...

...cry havoc ! and slip the dogs of war." It would seem that the truth of Cowper'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 recognise but the native humanizing effects...

...every class in the community; but to none is it such a curse as to the labourers." — Senior. • " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at," — CHAPTER VI. THE reader has seen, that in the Lectures on Wages which have been considered, Mr....

...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...

...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...