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" Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away. "
The Green Book: Or, Gleanings from the Writing-desk of a Literary Agitator - Page 130
by John Cornelius O'Callaghan - 1842 - 371 pages
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Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime

Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1743 - 256 pages
...Subjection continually over-awes and beats down his Genius. For, according to Homer, * * Jove fix' 'd it certain, that whatever Day Makes Man a Slave, takes half his Worth away. • Mr. Pope. Thus I have heard (if what I have heard in this Gafe may deferve credit) that the Cafes...
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A Volume of Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

John Free - Sermons, English - 1750 - 446 pages
...of Subjeftion continually over" awes and beats down his Genius. For, according to Hamer, " Jove fixd it certain, that whatever Day " Makes Man a Slave, takes half his Worth away." •f THOUGH lam the fartheft of any Man in the World from wifhing to fee Tradefmcn turn farfons, yet...
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An History of Jamaica: With Observations on the Climate, Scenery, Trade ...

Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 366 pages
...takes away half his virtue." Or, according to the eloquent paraphrase of Mr. Pope, . «« Jove fixed it certain, that, whatever day " Makes Man a slave, takes half his worth away." ' are really many exceptions) may safely be asserted to be thievish, lazy, and dissimulating. When...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope

Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...The master gone, the servants what restrains ? 390 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 : 395 And now...
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The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. To which is added, The battle of the frogs and mice

Homerus - 1807 - 488 pages
...The master gone, the servants what restrains? 590 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: 39£ The dog,...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...of subjection continually overawes and beats down his genius. For, according to HOMER, " JOVE fix'd it certain, that whatever day " Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away." " Thus, we are told, the cases, in which dwarfs are kept, not only prevent the future growth of those...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 4, Part 3

Greek literature - 1809 - 364 pages
...: The master gone, the servants what restrains i Or dwells humanity where riot reigns ; Jove iix'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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...: 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...
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Observations on the Character, Customs, and Superstitions of the Irish: And ...

Daniel Dewar - Education - 1812 - 374 pages
...influence of even such a conception must have a debasing tendency on the whole character : For, Jove- fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.* These-observations, together with those which have been elsewhere made, will account for that prejudice...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 322 pages
...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...
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