| Albert Barnes - Slavery - 1846 - 422 pages
...there is between a freeman and a slave. And this was much. Long ago it was said, by Homer, " Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." A slave, or a subject of oppression of any kind, is never worth half as much as a freeman. A man under... | |
| William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...all their care: The master gone, the servants what restrains? Or dwells Humanity where Riot reigus? Jove fix'd it certain that whatever day Makes man...herdsman strode before : The musing monarch pauses at tho door: The Dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His Lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd,... | |
| 1849 - 970 pages
...of subjection continually overawes and beats down his genius ; for, according to Homer, 1 JOVE fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' 1 Thus, we are told, the cases in which dwarfs are kept not only prevent the future growth of those... | |
| Samuel Kercheval - Indian captivities - 1850 - 356 pages
...piercing, and his scent how true, To wind the vapor in the tainted dew? Such, when Ulysses left his natal coast, Now years unnerve him, and his lord is...before: The musing monarch pauses at the door. The tlog whom fate had granted to behold His lord when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look,... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 436 pages
...traveller says l'e " cannot thick tha' purchasing slaves is either cruel or unnatural." Jove filed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. In later days it prevailed extensively in Greece, whose haughty people deemed themselves justified... | |
| Sir George Ferguson Bowen - Greece - 1852 - 276 pages
...of slavery ; ap T' apiT^Q airoaivvrai ivpvoira avepof, ivr' iiv ljiiv Kara Sov\iov ftpap eXpffiv7. "Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." All the vices which tyranny generates — the abject vices which it generates in those who submit to... | |
| Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1853 - 398 pages
...piercing, and his scent how true, To wind the vapour in the tainted dew! Such, when Ulysses left his natal coast ; Now years unnerve him, and his lord...day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." 390 UYLSSES AND HI8 DOO. This said, the honest herdsman strode before : The musing monarch pauses at... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...apoainutai curuopa Zeus llaneros, eat' au rain kata douliou ema elesin. Odd. 17, 828. VOL. vin. 25 Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites. Notwithstanding these considerations which must weaken... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...euruopa Zeus Ilaueros, eut' au rain kata doalioa ema eleain. Odd. 17, 323. VOL. vin. 5i5 Jove fixM it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites. Notwithstanding these considerations which must weaken... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...superior in discipline and resources, and could bring against * Od. xvii. 322. In Pope :— " Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." them overwhelming forces by land and sea, but they were already cantoned in all their chief towns,... | |
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