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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. "
Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... - Page 290
by Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 947 pages
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...frame of the universe, out of which we cannot stir. 4. ON CONCILIATION WITH THE AMERICAN COLONIES. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are the ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the...
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Speech of the Hon. Edward Everett on American Institutions: In Reply to ...

Edward Everett - Fourth of July orations - 1860 - 38 pages
...parent country ; it cannot be in that House of Commons where Burke uttered those golden words, — " My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges and equal protection." It cannot be in that House of Peers where Chatham, conscious that the colonies were fighting the battle...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold...affection which grows from common names, from kindred hlood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are...
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Success of Our Republic: An Oration

Edward Everett - Fourth of July celebrations - 1860 - 32 pages
...the parent country ; it can not be in that House of Commons, where Burke uttered those golden words, "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection." It can not be in that House of Peers, where Chatham, conscious that the colonies were fighting the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 66

American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...the parent country ; it cannot be in that House of Commons, where Burke uttered those golden words, "my hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection." It cannot be in that House of Peers, where Chatham, conscious that the colonies were fighting the battle...
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My kold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows...kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal iprotection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron./ Let the colonies...
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Britain and Her Colonies

Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert - Great Britain - 1865 - 296 pages
...these remarkable words, in 1775, in moving his ' Eesolutions for conciliation with America ':— ' My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...from similar privileges and equal protection. These ai;e ties which, though light as air, are as strong as iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 584 pages
...you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British Constitution. My hold...associated with your government, — they will cling md grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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Speeches of Thomas Lord Erskine, Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 552 pages
...that service, for all service," said Mr Burke, " whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold...the idea of their civil rights associated with your Governments, they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. . . . 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...
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