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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: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 346
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 432 pages
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The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy. Embracing the Laws of ...

Amasa Walker - 1866 - 554 pages
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the poet looked, when he said : — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...mind from error, • There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind can hardly lift itself to see — " What might be done, if men were wise." Yet...
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The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy. Embracing the Laws of ...

Amasa Walker - 1866 - 532 pages
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the poet looked, when he said: — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind can hardly lift itself to see — " What might be done, if men were wise." Yet...
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Advocate of Peace

1866 - 646 pages
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the. poet looked when he said : — " ' Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arnsenals and forts.' " The mind can hardly lift itself to see — ' What might be done, if men were...
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A Common-school Grammar of the English Language

Simon Kerl - 1866 - 372 pages
...being mental, is generally applied to the suppositions and conclusions in reasoning and wishing. " Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." — Longfellow. Since reasoning always implies two parts, a premise and a conclusion, —...
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The Science of Wealth: A Manual of Political Economy. Embracing the Laws of ...

Amasa Walker - 1866 - 546 pages
...day of time. It is only one part of this possibility at which the poet looked, when he said : — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courta, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." The mind...
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Kings of society; or, Leaders of social, intellectual, and religious progress

William Anderson (D.D.) - 1866 - 354 pages
...beautiful words of an American poet, written when he looked at an arsenal, with arms piled to the roof : " Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and...
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Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift again...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name'abhorred! And every natien that should lift again...
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Friends' Quarterly Examiner, Volume 9

1875 - 652 pages
...taken an especial interest. I will illustrated my meaning by quoting a few wellknown lines ; — " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts. " Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sotinds grow...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...his carnage and his conquest cease ! He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. Byron, Br.ofAb. n.20. "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the world bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of...
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