 | Julius Hunter, Julius K. Hunter - 1988 - 231 pàgines
...residential district, one that became an architectural hallmark for the entire nation. 3 . THE TIES THAT BIND My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from commons names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which,... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 212 pàgines
...corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burke's words, a man to his country with "ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." " That is why young men die in battle for their country's sake and why old men plant trees they will... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 pàgines
...Commons that security of rights and equality of rights were the twin bonds of British constitutionalism. My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; — they will... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pàgines
...121 likely to have France and Spain. empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. 122 Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your Government; -... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pàgines
...Rebellion of 1916, 1866 Iron curtain has descended, 234 curtain is drawn down, 234 he's got i. teeth, 1708 ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of i., 694 Irony of this involvement with size, 50 Irrecoverably principles of a free constitution are... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pàgines
...too." 61 In short, Burke hoped that, where force did not serve, generosity might work. In his words: "my hold of the colonies is in the close affection...though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." 62 From his own day to the present, Burke's American speeches have undergone extensive criticism from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pàgines
...service, 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 affection...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government — they will cling... | |
 | Jerome R. Reich - 1997 - 206 pàgines
...his plan would raise an American revenue, North's, "not a shilling."13 Burke concluded dramatically: My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling... | |
 | James Hoopes - 1998 - 220 pàgines
...community is a fictitious body" by invoking Burke s declaration that a person is bound to his country by "ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." Altering James's metaphor for the continuity of consciousness into a figurative description of the... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pàgines
...service, 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 affection which grows from common names, from kindred hlood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are... | |
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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... 
