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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. Let the colonies always keep... "
Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol - Page 160
by Edmund Burke - 1891 - 242 pages
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...will be an allowable license. BURKE ON CONCILIATING AMERICA. Let the colonies . . V always keep this idea of their civil rights / associated - with your government, \ they will cling and grapple to you ; EXPOSITION OF THOUGHT. \ will be of power to tear them - from their allegiance. But...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...before the nineteenth of April, 1775, that he said "My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood,...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 - Concord, Battle of, 1775 - 1850 - 144 pages
...was, before the 19th of April, 1775, that he said, " My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common 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

Questions and answers - 1921 - 1154 pages
...between 17UO-1770. Are they from Pitt's speeches? 1. " My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common 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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The National Speaker: Containing Exercises, Original and Selected, in Prose ...

Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. E. BUKKli. MR. SPEAKER: My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood,...associated with your government; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...trust is in her interest in the British Constitution. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood,...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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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar-privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though...associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...earth to argue anothe Englishman into slavery. * * My hold of the colonies is in the close affection art we 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 Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood,...associated with your government ; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven would be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...p . in her interest in the British Constitution. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood,...associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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