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" 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! "
A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams - Page 501
by Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 pages
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Kings of society; or, Leaders of social, intellectual, and religious progress

William Anderson (D.D.) - Christian biography - 1866 - 354 pages
...in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, War's echoing...
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A Common-school Grammar of the English Language

Simon Kerl - English language - 1866 - 372 pages
...being mental, is generally applied to the suppositions and conclusions in reasoning and wishing. " Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." — Longfellow. Since reasoning always implies two parts, a premise and a conclusion, —...
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Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley: Containing Descriptions ...

Henry Martyn Burt - History - 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,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain! + Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing...
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Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - Readers - 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...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest 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! And every natien that should lift again...
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Friends' Quarterly Examiner, Volume 9

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...
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Complete ed

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? V/ere half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 22

David Thomas - 1870 - 404 pages
...kings would not play at." Longfellow, with even still greater poetic fullness and force, has said — "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. See " Pulpit and its Handmaids," present number, p. 188. " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 1

Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 554 pages
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : " The warrior's nnme would he a name abhorred, And even,' nation that should lift again...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 1

Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred, And every nation that should lift again Its...
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