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" Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government... "
Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775 - Page 119
by Edmund Burke - 1898 - 159 pages
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...allegiance. But let it once be understood, that your government may be one thing, and their pivileges another; that these two things may exist without any...the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. 3. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign...
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The Monthly Chronicle, Volume 6

1840 - 588 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these...the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and every thing hastens to deeay and dissolution. " As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...able to tear them from their allegiance. But, let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these two things may exist without any material relation ; the cement is gone, the cohesion iloosened, and every thing hastens to decay and...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...exceedingly detrimental to the -interest of his country." Once, when pleading for America, he had said, " As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country [England] as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be u born in my father's dwelling ! So might we talk of the old familiar dis solution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...allegiance. But let it be once understood that you: government may be one thing and their privilege The bad affright, afflict the best! Round in thy...adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain loosened — and everything hastens to decay and diesolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...every thing hastens - to decay and dissolution. As long as you hare the wisdom to keep the sorereign authority - of this country, \/ as the sanctuary -...the sacred temple consecrated - to our common faith, \ w her ever the chosen race - and sons - of liberty worship freedom, /\ they will turn their faces...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...power to tear them from thei allegiance. But let it be once understood that you; government may be un; mutual relation, the cement is gone— the cohesion is loosened — and everything hastens to decay...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these...the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign...
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these...the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign...
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