 | John Louis Hill - 1922 - 174 sidor
...slaves also encircled the limbs of the masters. The degradation of both was unspeakable. "Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." However, in many instances, the human element entered into the relationships between the whites and... | |
 | 1924 - 610 sidor
...when the will did not belong to the worker. He agreed in Jefferson's quotation of Homer : " Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." " He never changed one of the first impressions he received in the South, that slaves at work seemed... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 706 sidor
...neither new, nor peculiar 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 »way. But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites. Notwithstanding these considerations which... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sidor
...all their 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 half his worth away. This said, the honest herdsman strode before : The musing Monarch pauses at the door : The Dog whom... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 sidor
...is not their condition then but nature which has produced the distinction." Nevertheless "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away." l The disposition of black slaves to petty theft must be attributed to their situation, not to natural... | |
 | 1936 - 626 sidor
...Emisu, ger t'aretes apoainutai europea Zeus, Haneros, eat' an min kata doulion ema elesin. Odd 17, 323. "Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ' Jefferson's Works, Vol. VIII, 385-386 (Taylor & Maury) the hands and under the management and control... | |
 | 1936 - 624 sidor
...ger t'aretes apoainutai europea Zeus, Haneros, cut' an min kata doulion ema elesin. Odd 17, 3*3"Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ' Jefferson's Works, Vol. VIII, 385-386 (Taylor & Maury) be hands and under the management and control... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 sidor
...even his sleeping master. Homer — if we may take Pope's word for it — observed that "Jove fiied it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worthaway;" but that the slaveholding relation effected an equal discount on the value of the master... | |
 | Philip Stevick - 1971 - 348 sidor
...nor peculiar to the color of the blacks. Homer tells vs it vw to 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 &... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 sidor
...ii. i69: 'There's hardly ever a Prince Mt had, bui his Minister is worse.' ' Odysiey, xvii. 3aa-3: 'Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day [ Makes man a slave, takes hall' his worth away ' lPupe's trans., Odystey, xvii. 39a-3l. kind was worse than Anarchy;t indeed... | |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. 
