 | Shiukichi Shigemi - Botanists - 1889 - 508 pages
...of servility. Virgil, become a courtier, was fitted only to burn incense at the shrine of power; for Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." CHAPTER XIX. HIGHER SPECIES OF POETRY — continued. The adjective Epic is derived from the Greek epo,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...txpcrrfs anocdwrai tvpvoTta Zsv 'AcpyfpoS, ivi1 av fiiv Hard Sov\iov ijftap E/irj6iv. — Od. 17, 323. 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...continually overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer ("Odyssey," I. 322): — "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." "As then," said he, "(if what I have heard deserves credit), the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | Richard Steel - Imitation - 1900 - 220 pages
...advance of the time in which he lives, whilst laying down in the Odyssey the maxim that — Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. evidently did not regard the relation as being in itself a violation of right. Nor, indeed, has slavery... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1900 - 244 pages
...advance of the time in which he lives, whilst laying down in the Odyssey the maxim that — Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. evidently did not regard the relation as being in itself a violation of right. Nor, indeed, has slavery... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer (« Odyssey,» I. 322), — « Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.» «As then,» said he, «if what I have heard deserves credit, the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer (« Odyssey, » I. 322), — «Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." "As then,8 said he, "if what I have heard deserves credit, the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...continually overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer ("Odyssey," I. 322): — "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." "As then," said he, " (if what I ha\re heard deserves credit), the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...The master gone, the servants what restrains ? 390 Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ? Jove fiz'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes...honest herdsman strode before: The musing Monarch panses at the door: The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Slavery - 1904 - 480 pages
...nor peculiar to the color of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so, 2,600 years ago : " ' Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' " The following is a specimen of the most careful kind of preaching, ordinarily addressed by the white... | |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. 
