| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies?...Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (jiven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 294 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
| 1925 - 822 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,...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 Its hand... | |
| Robert W. Johannsen - 1988 - 376 pages
...with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies?...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... | |
| George Lichtheim - 526 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Gompers - 1986 - 630 pages
...will, the love 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...human mind from 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,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 pages
...with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies?...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain!* Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
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