 | Two brothers - 1837 - 112 sider
...days to the work of destruction ; and closed with a line of his poetical companion, Cowper : — " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." He, too, gave the old soldier a crown, but though equally loyal with my father, his advice was of a... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1158 sider
...mischievous to every class in the community ; but to none is it such a curse as to the labourers."* " War it a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." — Cateper. s Senior. 348 DUTR1BUTION. CHAPTER XI. DISTRIBUTION. GOVERNMENTS-CAPITAL.— LABOUR. INDIA... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1837 - 806 sider
...any great nor substantial purpose. The knowledge of the art of war was the avowed object But war's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at. in fact they were to be made into soldiers, not into men and philosophers. Although whole continents... | |
 | 1838 - 492 sider
...both nations, if they had been fully actuated by the feeling expressed in the lines of Cowper : — " "War is 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 Huffington - 1839 - 500 sider
...and no other end in view but the personal aggrandizement of their king. ' It was well said by Cowper, that "War is a game, which were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." They are becoming fast wise enough to refuse their aid to unjust \vars; and now disputes among nations,... | |
 | Sir Henry Havelock - 1840 - 422 sider
...in completing a work of a more elaborate stamp. " War," said the poet, more than fifty years ago, " War is a game which, were their subjects wise, " Kings would not play at." The time seems slowly to have come round in Europe when both rulers and people are, in some measure,... | |
 | 1841 - 488 sider
...I should still be able to maintain the truth of the sentiment so powerfully expressed by the poet, that ' War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.J " — COWPJER. Then, calling my friend to the window, I continued, " Do you see yonder group of... | |
 | Henry Tyrwhitt Jones Macnamara - 1841 - 436 sider
...PLAN. CHAPTER VI. THE PREFERENCE DUE TO OUR PLAN. CHAPTER VII. PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS. CHAPTER VIII. " War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." Cowper. " A Congress of Nations, for the settlement of the principles of international law, and the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1841 - 790 sider
...for the maintenance of peace. If anу wisdom was to be derived from experience, it was that " War was a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." It was a fc-arful game to play at — it was a dreadful game to lose ut. He had no difficulty whatever,... | |
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 
