 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 sidor
...overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer (« Odyssey, » I. 322), — «Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." "As then,8 said he, "if what I have heard deserves credit, the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 sidor
...overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer (« Odyssey,» I. 322), — « Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.» «As then,» said he, «if what I have heard deserves credit, the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | 1901 - 884 sidor
...takes away half his virtue." I believe this is a corruption of a couplet in Pope's "Odyssey": — "Jore fix'd it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half hia 'Worth away." (xvli, 392.) And here, perhaps, the village preacher of the "Deserted Village' may... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 sidor
...continually overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to Homer ("Odyssey," I. 322): — "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." "As then," said he, " (if what I ha\re heard deserves credit), the cages in which what are called pigmies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 sidor
...The master gone, the servants what restrains ? 390 Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ? Jove fiz'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.' This said, the honest herdsman strode before: The musing Monarch panses at the door: The dog, whom... | |
 | John Worrell Northrop - 1904 - 238 sidor
...pm the train moves off and fourteen miles bring us into South Carolina, lN SLAVEDOM. If "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away," 'Tis no less certain that the galling cord That binds the slave perverts his haughty lord. Corroding... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1904 - 480 sidor
...nor peculiar 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... | |
 | Homer - 1907 - 444 sidor
...care : The master gone, the servants what restrains ? Or dwells humanity where riot reigns? Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." This said, the honest herdsman strode before : The musing monarch pauses at the door : The dog, whom... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 sidor
...society, he was like a child taught to swim with bladders and suddenly deprived of them. "Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." JOHN M. MECKLIN. M Op. tit., I, p. 114. HISTORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR NEGROES IN WASHINGTON If one... | |
 | 1918 - 1048 sidor
...elective system, that the judicial office can be entirely severed from politics ? We know perfectly well that — . . . Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Our representative democracy has, in its larger aspects, been measurably successful because our national... | |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. 
