 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!  Friends' Quarterly Examiner - Page 2531875Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that...terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power that...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
...such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? * Were half the power that...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... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that...terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's... | |
 | 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 wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need of arsenals and forts. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1846 - 112 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...With such accursed 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, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There... | |
 | 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,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The following incidents concerning the battle of Sierra Gordo are taken from the New Orleans Delta. The.... | |
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