 | Hiroshi Mizuta - 2000 - 544 lehte
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 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 696 lehte
...to the colour of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so 26oo years ago. . . . 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... | |
 | Michel Butor - 2004 - 340 lehte
...of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so two thousand six hundred years ago: '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 . . ." Thomas Jefferson. Through Sears, Roebuck &... | |
 | Carol Rae Wakely - 2005 - 100 lehte
...his ear. "Yes, I do believe I will sign that bill into law. As Homer wrote: 'Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' ' The president hears more whispers from under desk from Nate, "Just sign it, sign it!" Jefferson repeats... | |
 | Robert Amandus Johnson - 2006 - 145 lehte
...childhood, was Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey. In it Homer related 3000 years ago "that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." Undoubtedly, there were also fond memories of St Croix. He would later name his ultimate home in New... | |
 | Albert Bushnell - 2007 - 696 lehte
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 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 lehte
...to the colour of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so 2600 years ago. [. . .] Jove fix'd it certain, en out, & it might as well be done first as last) what wd. Od. 17.323 But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites. Notwithstanding these considerations which... | |
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Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
