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" ... 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 545
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Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800

William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 520 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...
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A Paper on the Life and Character of Mr. Thomas Paine

James A. Randall - Anarchism - 1909 - 44 pages
...too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a price on its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." Toward the close of this remarkably adroit and powerful,...
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Modern rationalism as seen at work in its biographies

Henry Lewis - Philosophers - 1913 - 450 pages
...cheap, 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 example of Joan of Arc is appealed to, and an ardent...
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The English Essay and Essayist

Hugh Walker - Authors, English - 1915 - 400 pages
...cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives anything 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." This has the ring of oratory. The note, though somewhat...
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 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. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared...
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The International Socialist Review, Volume 17

Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr - American periodicals - 1916 - 770 pages
...instead, his reply to "He kept us out of war," was 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 freedom would not be highly rated. How well those words of one of the most illustrious sons of freedom...
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An American History

Eleanor E. Riggs - United States - 1916 - 576 pages
...work. He wrote, " The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph, — 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." Many other enthusiastic phrases occurred. This pamphlet...
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American Patriots and Statesmen, from Washington to Lincoln: Patriotism of ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 382 pages
...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, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared...
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Junius Finally Discovered

William H. Graves - 1917 - 224 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.' Washington ordered the 'Crisis' read aloud to every...
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American Patriotic Prose, with Notes and Biographies

Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 458 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. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared...
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