| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 336 sider
...hunger, as death, as the frailty of human expectations, Cowper, about sixty years ago, had said, ' War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at." But Cowper would not have said this, had lie not been nearly related to the Whig house of 1'anshanger.... | |
| James William Massie - 1854 - 116 sider
...the English Government in her colonies, or in Ireland itself? War is no plaything for nations; and it is " a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." It is in no man's power to calculate what the issues of it will be. The men who are sent out to the... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 806 sider
...Some seek diversion in the tented field, 135 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... | |
| Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1897 - 318 sider
...behind Is not to die. NOTE. — See page 101 for the discussion of this sentence. 134 — 26. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Which is in the objective after at. If, understood, is the connective ; were wise is the predicate... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 sider
...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 - 1905 - 716 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 woiild do -well T' extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and... | |
| 1906 - 810 sider
...unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.2 S, BUTLER, Speeches in the Rump Parliament War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at, COWPER, The Task : The Winter Morning Walk, lines 187, 188 1War, war is still the cry, "war even to... | |
| Walter Walsh - 1906 - 488 sider
...be destroyed but not regulated. Cowper saw where the power to destroy it resided, saying, But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. War demoralizes the politician by putting into his hands the godlike power of life and death, mere... | |
| 1909 - 946 sider
...and methinks it would not be a bad plan for our boys to try and have the same put in effect. SEALER. War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. — Cowper. o Humility is a virtue all preach and none practice. — Selden. K a, UP p CH O p3 9 o... | |
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