 Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.  An American Bible - Page 83edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 412 pages
...esteem too lightly: it is dearness " only that gives every thing its value. " Heaven knows how to set a proper " price upon its goods ; and it would be " strange indeed, if so celestial an arti" cle as freedom should not be highly " rated." PAINE'S Cnisis^No. II. TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 408 pages
...esteem too lightly: it is dearness " only that gives every thing its value. "Heaven knows how to set a proper " price upon its goods ; and it would be " strange indeed, if so celestial an arti" cle as freedom should not be highly " rated." PAINE'S CRISIS, No. if. TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 526 pages
...What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: 'tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods...has a right (not only to TAX) but " to BIND us in AIA CASES WHATSOEvER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 pages
...What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly : 'Tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed, il so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an aripy to enforce... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835
...What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly : 'tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods...that she has a right (not only to TAX) but " to BIND its in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...esteem too lightly : — Tis dearucss only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows now to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial aa article os FBEEDOM should not be * Some time before his dcnth. 1m became verv melancholy — enbject... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Committee of Arrangements for the Paine Festival - 1856 - 98 pages
...'• Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods," he says, in this remarkable production, " and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." " I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength by distress, and grow brave by... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pages
...— Tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price u|K>n its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not bo • Some time before his death, lie became very melancholy — subject to strange imaginations—... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 30 pages
...What we obtain too cheap we estimate too lightly ; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods...an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." The opening sentence, These are the times that try men's souls, became the watchword of the battle... | |
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