 | International peace society - 232 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the buman mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : The warrior's name would bo a name... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...magnanimously forgiven. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECEMBER, 1872. THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts.* THE passions of mankind are, perhaps, as fierce as ever they were, but they... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? * Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's...every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 25 Down the dark future, through... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1845 - 108 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,...every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead 66 States to each other, the legislation of Congress and of the States,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1846 - 112 pages
...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...every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! can compare in importance,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts,...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... | |
 | 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 - 414 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... | |
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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 and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
