 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July celebrations - 1846 - 96 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
...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. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred, And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | John Frost - Generals - 1847 - 346 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. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordoare taken from the New Orleans... | |
 | John Gregory - 1847 - 110 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
...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 ! ' "... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 159 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...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 again Its... | |
 | Literature - 1856
...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, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich K. freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1849
...(Würbe) half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given (д С Я С Ь С tl, an д С WO nbt) to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. — (Longfeuow.) SBenn man ben Söffei unb @ie níфt b,a'tte, fo müßte man bie ©uppe trinfen. f>átte... | |
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