 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!  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 8edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...And jarrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...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... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pages
...by quoting a few wellknown lines ; — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Br.ofAb. n.20. "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the world bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ! Longfellow, Poems. The hand of peace is frank and warm, And soft as ringdove's wing, And... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 822 pages
...expensive. Is it? In the language of a poet: "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 of error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." * * * There are at present forty-eight vacant... | |
 | Pharmacology - 1899 - 740 pages
...Chemist & Druggist. WHAT LONGFELLOW WROTE. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given...human mind 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... | |
 | Robert W. Johannsen - History - 1988 - 376 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts Given...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 denounced... | |
 | Samuel Gompers - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 630 pages
...the true, the beautiful, and the useful. "Were half the power that tills the world with terror, "Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts "Given...human mind from error, "There were no need of arsenals and forts." While it may not be a practical proposition to ask for immediate disarmament of all countries,... | |
 | George Lichtheim - Political Science - 526 pages
...meetings, he customarily fell back on Wordsworth: Were half the power that fills the world with terror Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1988 - 442 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...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... | |
 | William Appleman Williams - History - 1988 - 358 pages
...goal of a better human life. CHAPTER EIGHT Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. HENRY WADSVVORTH LONGFELLOW, "THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD" It is not the primacy of economic... | |
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