 | Léon Brédif - 1881 - 522 страници
...EXTINGUISHED WITH DEMOSTHENES. p raperijs axoaivurai eupunxa 'Avlpos, sur'uv fi.iv xarii Suvhov rj/iiap "Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." After peace was concluded Athens, notwithstanding the division of parties, did not cease to contend... | |
 | Léon Brédif - 1881 - 530 страници
...ELOQUENCE EXTINGUISHED WITH DEMOSTHENES. a-oaivorai eupun~a !;, eor'av iu.v xard Souhov "Jove flx'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." After peace was concluded Athens, notwithstanding the division of parties, did not cease to contend... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1883 - 80 страници
...little better than a slave. Perhaps some readers may recollect what was said of the slave : " Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." G LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. .V ... | |
 | 1883 - 636 страници
...little better than a slave. Perhaps some readers may recollect what was said of the slave : " Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFOED STRZET AND CHARING CROSS. INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | Thomas O'Hagan Baron O'Hagan - 1884 - 446 страници
...and, sometimes, lamentably extinguish at once the sentiment of honour and the reverence for truth. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away ! All this, and the evil chance of it, Moore avoided by declining the acceptance of favours from his... | |
 | Stephen Salisbury - 1885 - 172 страници
...Homer has expressed the value of personal liberty in words that cannot be forgotten : — ' Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' Odyssey (Pope), xvii. 322. There are other causes of this change than the caprice of fashion, the 'giddy... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 страници
...Homer has expressed the value of personal liberty in words that cannot be forgotten : — ' Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' Odyssey (Pope), xvii. 322. There are other causes of this change than the caprice of fashion, the '... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 страници
...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 - 1894 - 634 страници
...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 - 1900 - 468 страници
...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... | |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
