 ... and thanks of man and woman. 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...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 545edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...we esteem too lightly: it is 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 if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared... | |
 | Ellery Sedgwick - 1899 - 190 pages
...esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its I value. Heaven knows how to put a I ^w proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." The next night Washington crossed the Delaware. His... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 pages
...triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly : 't is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange, indeed, it BO celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 pages
...triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly ; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price...and it would be strange, indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1907 - 40 pages
...we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. —THE CRISIS WIDEMER LIBRARY HOMAS PAINE was an English... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - 1907 - 334 pages
...triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly ; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods ; and it would have been strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated- " LAJAPAT... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1907 - 282 pages
...esteem too lightly ; it is 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 if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 412 pages
...we esteem too lightly: 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FEEEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 pages
...the love and thanks of man and woman. . . . The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods;...and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be First Pase °f Thomas Pair's c>«« highly rated." The address was... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1909 - 354 pages
...we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." One of his biographers says that the first number was... | |
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