 | Walter Ross Livingston - Nova Scotia - 1926 - 130 pages
...none the less an Imperialist because an Irishman — which, perchance may have suggested a better way: "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...your government; they will cling and grapple to you. ... As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary... | |
 | Canada - 1926 - 402 pages
...the less an Imperialist because an Irishman — • which, perchance may have suggested a better way: "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...your government; they will cling and grapple to you. ... As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1921 - 442 pages
...quality of the race, its intense and elevated conviction. "My hold on the colonies," he declares, " is in the close affection which grows from common...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 430 pages
...the same good effect. This is my model with regard to America." And, lastly, those famous phrases : " 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." Had Burke founded a school, the claim of the colonies to the origination... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1927 - 348 pages
...Colonies is in the close affection Burke 1s which grows from common names, from kindred blood, T775 from similar privileges, and equal protection. These...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - Elocution - 1928 - 568 pages
...gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs, — A woodland rivulet, — a Poet's death. KEATS 21 . . . 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... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee, Royal Institute of International Affairs - Commonwealth countries - 1928 - 164 pages
...the auspices of the British Institute of International Affairs (The Times, 15th November, 1924). 4 ' My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron' — Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775. The Channel could not be kept open for... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - History - 1965 - 412 pages
...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.... | |
 | Julius Hunter, Julius K. Hunter - History - 1988 - 231 pages
...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,...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. —Edmund Burke (1775) The pioneers who were bold enough to build mansions in the urban wilderness... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...retract... void cf. Paradise Lost, rv.96. 121 likely to have France and Spain. empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. 122 Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your Government; -... | |
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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. 
