 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 Seiten
...wings, Which now be dead, lodged in thy living bowers. /. R. Lvwell. LXII. ON THE RIGHTS OF COLONISTS.*1 MY hold of the Colonies is in the close affection...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the Colonists always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your Government ; — they will... | |
 | John Lord - 1882 - 618 Seiten
...sagacity. " My hold of the colonies," said this great oracle of moral wisdom, " is the close affection gfu which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and from equal protection. These are the ties which, tnough light as air, are as strong as links of iron.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...representation are inseparable." At the close of a long speech in defense of this position, Mr. Burke said : My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with... | |
 | 1883 - 538 Seiten
...revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in the interest which America has in the British Constitution. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - 1965 - 412 Seiten
...by any sentiments of attachment towards Great Britain. " My hold of the colonies," wrote Burke, " is the close affection which grows from common names,...which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."1 But in these ties, save the last only, there is nothing to demand or to ensure political union.... | |
 | 1976 - 136 Seiten
...essential part of it, he drew forth for his hearers the impalpable essence of interimperial co-operation: 'the close affection which grows from common names,...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection . . . ties which though light as air are as strong as links of iron'. As an essential preliminary to... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - 1976 - 276 Seiten
...justice. Rather than attempting to hold the empire together by coercion, the mother country should foster "the close affection which grows from common names,...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. . " Instead of insisting on Parliament's right to tax the colonies, or demanding that the individual... | |
 | Sir William John Victor Windeyer - 1978 - 40 Seiten
...thirty other lands. Rather it denotes simply a relationship of Australia to Britain - a reminder of the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron of which Edmund Burke spoke. I shall now say a little of some aspects of geography and history - well... | |
 | Julius Hunter, Julius K. Hunter - 1988 - 231 Seiten
...residential district, one that became an architectural hallmark for the entire nation. 3 . THE TIES THAT BIND My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from commons names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which,... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 212 Seiten
...corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burke's words, a man to his country with "ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." " That is why young men die in battle for their country's sake and why old men plant trees they will... | |
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My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. 
