 | 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862
...When listeners refrain from evilhearing. H&rc. SLAVE— Evil of becoming a. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Pope. SLAVE-A Perpetual. He must be a perpetual slave, who knows not how to live upon a little. Uorace.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1863 - 251 lehte
...gone, the servants what restrains ? Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ? Heaven fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his...honest herdsman strode before ; The musing monarch lingered at the door ; The dog, whom fate had granted to behold His lord when twenty tedious years... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 37 lehte
...sleeping master. Homer — if we may take Pope's word for it — observed that "Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away;" but that the slaveholding relation effected an equal discount on the value of the master appears to... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864
...evpúoira Zet)î àvépos, е$т âv fj-tv ката oovXiov 7/fJ.ap eXrjffiv. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. See Ramage, pp. 17, 41. MAN SUBJECT то VICISSITUDES. Odyss. xviii. 130. oodev ÁKiSvÓTepov yala... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1865
...sleeping master. Homer — if we may take Pope's word for it — observed that "Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away;" but that the slaveholding relation effected an equal discount on the value of the master appears to... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865
...sleeping master. Homer — if we may take Pope's word for it — observed that "Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away;" but that the slaveholding relation effected an equal discount on the value of the master appears to... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - 1866
...master gone, the servants what restrains ? Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ? Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his...before : The musing monarch pauses at the door : The do;jr, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last... | |
 | J. ARTHUR PARTRIDGE - 1866
...leant on England. The South, on a complication of monopolies and protections. " Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a Slave, takes half his worth away." for the Slave squadron. Ten millions a year, lately, before the war, for monopoly price of Cotton,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 lehte
...ev'n peace would be But a dull, quiet slavery. DRYDEN. Ode to Memory, Chap. II. JOVE fix'd it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. POPE. Iliad, Book XVII. THE effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please... | |
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Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
