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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! "
Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 77
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pages
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 41

Naval art and science - 1872 - 1118 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...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And...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...
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The True Grandeur of Nations: an Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of ...

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,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarreHt the celestial harmonies '. Were half the power, that...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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

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...
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Life of Major General Zachary Taylor: With Notices of the War in New Mexico ...

John Frost - Generals - 1847 - 414 pages
...castle of San Juan de Ulloa, I could not but think of Longfellow's beautiful and truthful lines. ' Is it, 0 man, with such discordant noises, With such...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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The English Presbyterian messenger, Volumes 9-10

Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed...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...
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Life of Major General Zachary Taylor: With Notices of the War in New Mexico ...

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,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordo are taken from the New Orleans...
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Anti-war: Two Discourses, Delivered at Williston and Burlington, July, 1846 ...

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...
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Gems from the spirit mine. (League of univ. brotherhood).

Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed...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...
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