 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 404 pages
...kings would not play at." Longfellow, with even still greater poetic fullness and force, has said — "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. See " Pulpit and its Handmaids," present number, p. 188. " The warrior's name would be a... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 554 pages
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : " The warrior's nnme would he a name abhorred, And even,' nation that should lift again... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation, that should... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 pages
...Longfellow's famous poem. The most powerful stanza in that great poem is certainly this : "Were hall the power that fills the world with terror, Were half...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." The same thought was expressed by our most influential educational reformer of the last... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - Christian biography - 1870 - 332 pages
...content to reason with Longfellow : 'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were halt the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to...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 Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 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 warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 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 warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1871 - 360 pages
...this Psalm of Peace may relieve the detail of statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...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... | |
 | 1871 - 692 pages
...Christianity practically denied — on which side stands the balance ? Were it rightly estimated, " The warrior's name would be a name abhorred. And every...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Caia." DAVID A. WELLS. [I**MY HOUSEKEEPING IN ROME. AND so it... | |
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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! 
