| Albert Barnes - 1846 - 422 страници
...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 - 1847 - 568 страници
...Ulysses left his natal coast, Now years unnerve him and his lord is lost! The women keep tho gencro'us creature bare, A sleek and idle race is all their...said, the honest herdsman strode before: The musing monarch pauses at the door: The Dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His Lord, when twenty tedious... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 562 страници
...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...said, the honest herdsman strode before : The musing monarch pauses at tho door: The Dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His Lord, when twenty tedious... | |
| 1849 - 970 страници
...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... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 страници
...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 - 1852 - 276 страници
...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... | |
| 1852 - 746 страници
...dearly, shall thou hny thy hread With many a footstool thundering at thy head. — Odyss. 17. Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his mind away. — Ihid. ii. Plato, in The Laws, dial, vi., says, " Nothing in the soul of a slave is in... | |
| Homer - 1853 - 398 страници
...'scaped him bosom'd in the gloomy wood ; His eye how piercing, and his scent how true, To wind the vapour in the tainted dew! Such, when Ulysses left his natal...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 - 1854 - 634 страници
...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... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 страници
...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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