 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 460 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 lehte
...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... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1856
...be uppermost. The habit of subjection overawes and beats down his genius." " Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.'' But while freedom, it is true, is requisite to the full development of the powers of speech, let it... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856
...tvr' av fuv ката SouXtoy гцшр еХдочу. Ыом. Odyit. xvii. 322. Jove fis'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. freedom of Hellas, the life and soul of this history from its commencement, disappeared completely... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856
...avtpos, cvr' av juv Kara 8ov\iov >//u'/> eXjcrii'. Hi .n. Odyst. xvii. 322. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. freedom of Hellas, the life and soul of this history from its commencement, disappeared completely... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 723 lehte
...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... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1857
...of what they trampled on : the Parthenon destroyed by barbarians ! " Freedom. Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. " What must he be, who, with half his worth gone, recovers his freedom ? " Gibbon. He says — ' The... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 723 lehte
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 622 lehte
...continually overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer : — Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Pope. Thus I have heard (if what I have heard in this case may deserve credit), that the cases in which... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861
...to the colour 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.' " CHAPTEE IV. THE ECONOMY OF VIRGINIA. AN Englishman will cross three thousand miles of sea, and, landing... | |
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Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
