... 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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