 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...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 - 424 pages
...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 - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...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 - 670 pages
...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 - Dogs - 1866 - 466 pages
...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 - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...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 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd : but bred a dog. SA. Timon, iv. 3. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Pope. Ill-fated race ! the softening arts of peace, Wrhatc'er the Inimanizing muses teach ; The godlike... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...overawes and. beats down his genius. For, according to Homer (Odys. i. ver. 322), " Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." Moreover, he is only " the freeman whom the truth makes free ;" and, in communities where we have neither... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...amelioration of their condition, since one order of things excludes the other. "Jove fixed it certain that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half hIs worth away ;" and from a long and bitter experience of the relation of an employé, I can confidently state that... | |
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Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
