 | 1828 - 722 стор.
...of delegated and provincial authority may be actually carried. If it be true, as Homer has alleged, that the day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth — it seems to be still more infallibly and fatally true, that the master generally suffers... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 стор.
...blazon out the descent, but solid glory and real greatness, are inseparably connected with virtue. — The day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth ; and he loses every incentive to action, but the base one of fear. — With time and patience... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1831 - 474 стор.
...him, were he to pass an hour in any one's society without such disclosure. Now the sentiment of Homer, that " the day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth,"* applies in all its force to the minister of Christ, who has become the slave of dyspepsy.... | |
 | Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 стор.
...hypocrisy, cunning, the revenge of assassins, and the servility of slaves. If it be true, as Homer says, that the day which makes a man a slave takes away half his virtue, it must also take away half his happiness. If slavery degrades the character of a people, lowers... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1842 - 844 стор.
...perpetual dread, and meanness and above all falsehood in every form becomes habitutd. When Homer said that " the day which makes a man a slave takes away half his worth," he assuredly did not make an over estimate of the debasing eifects of slavery ; iind every... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 стор.
...of delegated and provincial authority may be actually carried. If it be true, as Homer has alleged, that the day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth — it seems to be still more infallibly and fatally true, that the master generally suffers... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 стор.
...of delegated and provincial authority may be actually carried. If it be true, as Homer has alleged, that the day which makes a man a slave, takes away half his worth — it seems to be still more infallibly and fatally true, that the master generally suffers... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 234 стор.
...of putting it into effect, and from the expectation of the event proving favourable to its wishes. The day which makes a man a slave takes away half his worth; and he loses every incentive to action but the base one of fear. A tyrant against man is a libeller... | |
 | 1836 - 778 стор.
...the party before which he is now pence-bowed. Old Homer said long ago (and what has he not said ?), that the day which makes a man a slave takes away half his worth. The process that could take away half the worth of Palmerston must be a very stringent one ;... | |
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... tempted by the possession of absolute and unquestioned power — and may learn, from indisputable memorials, how far the abuse of delegated and provincial authority may be actually carried. If it be true, as Homer has alleged, that the day which makes... 