 | 1911 - 458 páginas
...Recitation— "Paul Revere's Ride." 26. After visiting the Arsenal at Springfield, Mass., he wrote — Were half the power that fills "the world with terror,"...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 27. He had a generous nature. Nobody was ever turned away from his home with a heavy heart.... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1881 - 372 páginas
...settle their differences by a duel, how much more wicked for two millions of men ! H. w. Longfel- " 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... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - 1881 - 396 páginas
...little have the ambitions of men advanced the honour of GOD ! Well may we exclaim with the poet — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." 1 We must not indeed imagine that war, dreadful as it is, has no redeeming features, or... | |
 | Franz Hoffmann - 1882 - 92 páginas
...Germany, so wild, and strong, and glowing were the passion and fancy displayed in it. CHAPTER VI. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies ! But... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies f Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forte ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation I li.-n should lift again Its... | |
 | George Gore - 1882 - 240 páginas
...upon military affairs would, if devoted to research, save a great deal of expense in warfare:— " Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,—...mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts."—LONGFELLOW. Our Government has as yet made but little payment for the labour of pure research... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 páginas
...cannonade." But he turns from those discordant noises into the track of his perpetual beneficence — "Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error There were no need of arsenals and forts. "Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then... | |
 | 1882 - 404 páginas
...3*' '* Toy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose." —Poetic Afhorismi. 33. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror....human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." 33. " For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language ; — on earth it... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...cannonade." But he turns from those discordant noises into the track of his perpetual beneficence — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error There were no need of arsenals and forts. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 páginas
...And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; Tae tnmult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that...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... | |
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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! 
