 If I were King of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I 'd have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home." But. squire, are you really for peace at any price ? I remember what you once wrote in approval of the extermination of the Canaanites...  The Idea of a League of Nations - Page 21by Herbert George Wells, Edward Grey Grey of Fallodon (Viscount), Lionel Curtis, William Archer, Henry Wickham Steed, Alfred Zimmern, John Alfred Spender, James Bryce Bryce (Viscount), Gilbert Murray - 1919 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...Shelley says, " in agony and horror ;" their expression is, in the words of our popular song, " Oh ! if I were King of France, or, still better, Pope of Rome, I'd have no fighting-men abroad, or weeping maids at home ; All the world should be at peace, and kings might show... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...mothers at home, may think the price high, even for two such songs. Foster (humming half to himself). " If I were King of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I 'd have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home." But. squire, are you really for peace... | |
 | Blanche Willis Howard - Europe - 1877 - 264 pages
...point of view, lead the wise to destroy something selfish tourists would fain preserve intact. But " if I were king of France, or, still better, pope of Rome," or emperor of Germany, I 'd let the commerce go elsewhere where there is room for it, and guard old... | |
 | Blanche Willis Howard - Europe - 1878 - 266 pages
...point of view, lead the wise to destroy something selfish tourists would fain preserve intact. But "if I were king of France, or, still better, pope of Rome," or emperor of Germany, I 'd let the commerce go elsewhere where there is room for it, and guard old... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - English essays - 1894 - 280 pages
...mothers at home, may think the price high, even for two such songs. Foster (humming half to himself). " If I were King of France, Or, still better, Pope of Rome, I 'd have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home." But, Squire, are you really for peace... | |
 | Ernest William Hornung - Gold mines and mining - 1903 - 346 pages
...sprawling across the table, his great face hidden in the hirsute folds of his powerful arms. " Oh ! if I were King of France, or still better Pope of Rome, I 'd have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home. All the world should be at peace, or, if... | |
 | A. B. - Women household employees - 1908 - 428 pages
...battles and struggles of ancient times, he is reminded of verses his Irish grandmother used to sing: " If I were King of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I'd have no fighting men abroad, Nor weeping maids at home; But this thing I would ordain, For I am sure it would be right, That those... | |
 | Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 pages
...will be with you Wherever you may go — Can you look me in the face And say the same, Jeannot? "O if I were king of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, There'd be no fighting men abroad. No weeping maids at home. All the world would be at peace — Or,... | |
 | Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 pages
...adapted from the French and was known as "Jeannette and Jeanot." One stanza, as I remember it, ran : "If I were King of France Or still better Pope of Rome, There'd be no fighting men abroad No weeping maids at home." The concluding lines of the stanza were:... | |
 | American essays - 1919 - 902 pages
...new'merchant marine will cause many to think desirable and inevitable. THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS. II' MANY people have said to themselves, like Jeannette...in the touching old ballad, — If I were King of Prance, or, still better, Pope of Rome, I'd have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home;... | |
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