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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. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 78
by Edmund Burke - 1807
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...us from Greece or Rome. Less than a month it was before the nineteenth of April, 1775, that he said "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." These kindly words, and more like them, were uttered on the twenty-second of March. On the nineteenth...
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An Oration Delivered at Concord: On the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth ...

Robert Rantoul - 1850 - 144 pages
...to us from Greece or Rome. Less than a month it was, before the 19th of April, 1775, that he said, " My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and from equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron." These...
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Notes and Queries

1921 - 1154 pages
...— .The following must belong to some work between 17UO-1770. Are they from Pitt's speeches? 1. " My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and «• | iu 1 protection. " These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...betray you. An English man is the unnttest person on earth to argue anothe Englishman into slavery. * * ard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart...hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell «hot Thest are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day! * * * # * # My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar-privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...sceve you, and serve you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, ternal society, linking «f fection which grows from common names, finn. kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...serve you, and serve vou essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, v v v ftp/i : l s v v t v~p p q p k m airfare as strong as links of iron^ Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil right« associât«!...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...parent state. " ' For that service — for all service,' said Mr. Burke, ' whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British...similar privileges and equal protection. These are bondage of superstition and prejudice, were, owing to the control and influence of the clergy over...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...serve you, and serve you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are tics which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry: Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 pages
...tear 1. FOR that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in lier interest in the British Constitution My hold of the...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. * Choctaws, a tribe of Indians inhabiting the southern part of the United States. them from their allegiance....
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