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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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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...those chances, which, as they happen to all men, are the strength and resources of all inferior power. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...from common names, from kindred blood, from similar irivileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though ight as air, yet are as strong as the...
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Blackie's graded readers, ed. by M. Paterson, Part 8

Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...Faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies. — John Wilson (I78STHE COLONIES. 1. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, yet are as strong as the links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights...
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Cassell's History of the United States, Volume 2

Edmund Ollier - 1880 - 658 pages
...dominion in the Crimea or Algiers as at Brnsa or Smyrna. " My hold of the colonies," he continued, "is in the close affection which grows from common...protection. These are ties which, though light as nir, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated...
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The Art of Speech ...

Luther Tracy Townsend - 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...
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The Republic of Republics: Or, American Federal Liberty

Bernard Janin Sage - 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,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...nnfittest person on earth to argiie another Enirliehmnn into slavery. . . . My hold of the colon Seals in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, nnd equal protection. These ore ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let...
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Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with ..., Volume 5

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...
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Modern Europe, a school history. To 1859. To the fall of Napoleon iii

John Lord - 1882 - 618 pages
...sagacity. " My hold of the colonies," said this great oracle of moral wisdom, " is the close affection gfu which grows from common names, from 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....
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The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the 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...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English prose

James Baldwin - 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...
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