 | Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 1881 - 272 pages
...philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." — Bacon. " My hold on the colonies is the close affection which grows from common names,...protection. These are ties which, though. light as air, yet are strong as links of iron." Burke. "But yesterday, and Britain might have stood against the world... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their...government, they will cling and grapple to you, and no power under heaven will be able to tear them from your allegiance." But, continued he, " the cement... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...appositely in the British Parliament: " My hold on the colonies," said he, " is the close affection that grows from common names, from kindred blood, from...protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government,... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...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 pages
...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. Let...rights associated with your government; they will cling to you, and no power under heaven will be able to tear them from their allegiance. But let it once... | |
 | History - 1883 - 540 pages
...For all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in the interest which America has in the British Constitution. My hold of the colonies...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...You never can receive it, no, not a shilling. For all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. Let them always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 484 pages
...You never can receive it, no, not a shilling. For all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. Let them always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1904 - 604 pages
...and many others, but all to no avail. On the 22d of March, 1775, Burke uttered these kindly words, "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." On the nineteenth of the very next month the curtain rose on one of the mightiest dramas in the world's... | |
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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. 
