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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 World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 2068
by David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 4107 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 198

1903 - 606 pages
...dispersal. Material ties are no guarantee, as Burke long ago pointed out, for union and loyalty. ' My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...though light as air are as strong as links of ' iron.' Even if our commerce were endangered by freedom, which is far from being the case, we should remember...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 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...equal protection. These are ties, which, though light a& air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 3

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 516 pages
...state. — " For that ser" vice, for all service," said Mr. Burke, " whether " of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her " interest in the British...the colonies is in the close affection which grows *t from common names, from kindred blood, from " similar privileges, and equal protection. These **...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 3

James Ridgway - 1813 - 518 pages
...state.—" For that ser" vice, for all service," said Mr. Burke, " whether " of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her * * interest in the British constitution. My hold of '* the colonies is-in the close afF^ption which grows (* from common names, from kindred blood, from " similar privileges,...
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The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American ...

Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 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 Constitution. My hold in the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 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 constitution. My hold of the colonies is m the close aifection which grows from common names, from kmdred blood, from similar privileges, and...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 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 constitution. My hold of the colonies is ¡n the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges,...
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Fourth of July Orations, Volume 1

1863 - 542 pages
...find ready credence, 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

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...serve you, and serre you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, nr es from their constituents went on with a silent progress dose affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...serve you, and serve you essentially. For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or e, ye great tremendous powers, to tell Of scenes and...depth of hell : Give me your mighty secrets to displ j grows from common names, from kindred blood, / from similar privileges, and equal protection.•...
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