 ... 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 gives everything its value.  A Short History of the American Revolution - Página 115por James L. Stokesbury - 1993 - 304 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 408 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 410 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 444 páginas
...: '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, if so...an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 páginas
...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, if so...an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 páginas
...: '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, if so...an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 páginas
...: '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, if so...an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Committee of Arrangements for the Paine Festival - 1856 - 100 páginas
...'• 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 páginas
...— 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 - 32 páginas
...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...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 of Trenton,... | |
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