 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1846 - 112 pages
...attractive of any in the poem, but which commend themselves by their intrinsic truth and moral force :— Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed instruments as these — Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...redeem the 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... | |
 | John Frost - Generals - 1847 - 422 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonics * Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordo are taken from... | |
 | John Gregory - 1847 - 120 pages
...thirty-five millions expended by this professedly Christian nation, in teaching men how to love enemies ! " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...courts,. Given to redeem the human mind from error, TKere would be ho need of arsenals an«I fotta. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...bring down the blessing, and, as Longfellow has told us in rhymes that have become household words, ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps or courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts ! ' "... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...Is it, O man ! with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices. And jarrest the...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies; Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Where half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be aname abhorred! And every nation, that should lift... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...inward voice, l Our hearts are thankful, and our souls rejoice ! H. SELECTED POETRY. WAR AND PEACE. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the weal h bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need... | |
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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 or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
