| Charles Sumner - 1870 - 554 Seiten
...statistics, while they happily blend with my argument. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and...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... | |
| 1906 - 1232 Seiten
...powerful stanza in that great poem is certainly this : "Were hall the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 Seiten
...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and...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... | |
| Joshua Priestley - 1870 - 332 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1905 - 422 Seiten
...Public and its Libraries." Longfellow actually did say : "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." — But keenly as we may or may not appreciate the truth of his words, we are dull, and... | |
| 1905 - 1018 Seiten
...industrial strife no less than of international, that — ' ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and...error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." Helping to redeem the human mind from error — from passion, greed, dishonesty, ignorance — sums... | |
| 1920 - 658 Seiten
...country. This quotation from Longfellow is indeed true: Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. All the time and effort will be worth while if in future years they are all able to say, as in this... | |
| 1899 - 740 Seiten
...Linseed. — Chemist & Druggist. WHAT LONGFELLOW WROTE. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and...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 - 1988 - 376 Seiten
...kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and...human mind 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... | |
| Samuel Gompers - 1986 - 630 Seiten
...of the good, 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...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, the... | |
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