 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 pages
...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...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
...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 her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but " to BIND us... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Committee of Arrangements for the Paine Festival - 1856 - 100 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
...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 pages
...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 opening sentence, These are the times that try men's souls, became the watchword of the battle... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...dcarness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows liow to set n proper price 1.|юп its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Knttoosi should not be • S>nme time before his death, he became vf ry melancholy— »abject to stmngo... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1873 - 744 pages
...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 price paid for the maintenance of the American Union, with freedom for all its inhabitants, was... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1894 - 476 pages
...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...US in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in tliat manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression... | |
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... 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 every thing its value. 
