 | Homer - 1842 - 358 sidor
...The master gone, the servants what restrains 1 390 Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ] Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes...strode before : The musing monarch pauses at the door : 395 And now Telemacmis, the first of all, 400 Observed Eumaeus entering in the hall ; Distant he... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - 1842 - 382 sidor
...fate of the national independence in which they originated ! Well and truly has Homer said, Jove makes it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away ! Such interesting memorials of poetical Anti-Unionism, and all similar remains of Irish national feeling... | |
 | 1843 - 404 sidor
...more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. Essay on Man. God fixed it certain, that, whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. Homers OJyssty. JOSEPH ADDISON. O Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright, Profuse of bliss, and pregnant... | |
 | William Howitt - 1845 - 416 sidor
...worthy, not merely of a Hebrew, but of a Christian ;— as this fine and just opinion of slavery : — Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes hall' his worth away. — B. xviii. This noble description of the power of conscience : — Pirates... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1846 - 416 sidor
...which 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 - 562 sidor
...care: The master gone, the servants what restrains? Or dwells Humanity where Riot reigus? Jove fix'd it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes...herdsman strode before : The musing monarch pauses at tho door: The Dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His Lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd,... | |
 | 1849 - 970 sidor
...the habit 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... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval - 1850 - 356 sidor
...care: The 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...before: The musing monarch pauses at the door. The tlog whom fate had granted to behold His lord when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 sidor
...says he " cannot think that purchasing slaves is either cruel or unnatural." 5 Odyssey, Book XVII. Jove fixed 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 sidor
...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... | |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. 
