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 - Σελίδα 86των Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 413 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Charles Sumner - 1870 - 556 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1906 - 1232 σελίδες
...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 - 1870 - 332 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1925 - 822 σελίδες
...billion. Yet some people think our educational program is expensive. Is it? In the language of a poet: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind of error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." * * * There are at present forty-eight vacant... | |
| 1920 - 658 σελίδες
...Americanization of all these future citizens of our country. This quotation from Longfellow is indeed true: Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind 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,... | |
| 1899 - 740 σελίδες
...to save her from dying was Kay's Essence of Linseed. — Chemist & Druggist. WHAT LONGFELLOW WROTE. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...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 σελίδες
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that...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 denounced... | |
| George Lichtheim - 526 σελίδες
...regard to the war. (When challenged at stormy wartime meetings, he customarily fell back on Wordsworth: Were half the power that fills the world with terror...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals or forts. ) The Webbs' ability to draw Henderson into the Socialist camp after his quarrel... | |
| |