Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! Addresses on War - Page 83by Charles Sumner - 1871 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Martyn Burt - 1867 - 294 pages
...instruments as these, Thq|i drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift again... | |
| 1875 - 652 pages
...taken an especial interest. I will illustrated my meaning by quoting a few wellknown lines ; — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sotinds grow... | |
| 1905 - 426 pages
...BURSILL, Assistant Librarian, Woolwich, on "The Public and its Libraries." Longfellow actually did say : "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." — But keenly as we may or may not appreciate the truth of his words, we are dull, and lacking in... | |
| 1905 - 1018 pages
...but there is need to remember also, of industrial strife no less than of international, that — ' ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." Helping to redeem the human mind from error — from passion, greed, dishonesty, ignorance... | |
| 1925 - 822 pages
...billion. Yet some people think our educational program is expensive. Is it? In the language of a poet: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind of error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." * * * There are at present forty-eight vacant... | |
| 1920 - 658 pages
...Americanization of all these future citizens of our country. This quotation from Longfellow is indeed true: Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. All the time and effort will be worth while if in future years they are all able to say,... | |
| 1899 - 740 pages
...to save her from dying was Kay's Essence of Linseed. — Chemist & Druggist. WHAT LONGFELLOW WROTE. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : Th-' warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand... | |
| Robert W. Johannsen - 1988 - 376 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts! 1 ' 2 Scott's decision to take Vera Cruz by siege and bombardment rather than by storm was... | |
| George Lichtheim - 526 pages
...regard to the war. (When challenged at stormy wartime meetings, he customarily fell back on Wordsworth: Were half the power that fills the world with terror...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals or forts. ) The Webbs' ability to draw Henderson into the Socialist camp after his quarrel... | |
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