 | Nicholas Deakin - 2000 - 370 pàgines
...But come what may, fire or tears or victory7 we dare not let it go. CHAPTER V AND OUR EMPIRE? "... 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 - 2000 - 540 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 33 Paradise Lost 4.96-97. common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection.... | |
 | Stephen K. White - 2002 - 134 pàgines
...bond that is the real foundation of Great Britain's "hold" over its colonies: "Close affection . . . grows from common names, from kindred blood, from...which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."25 But governments can corrode these links by abusive policies. Against the recourse to "absolute... | |
 | Josep V. Gavaldà Roca - 2002 - 294 pàgines
...290) the reconciliation of Great Britain with her American colonies: My hold of Ihc colonies is in (he close affection which grows from common names, from...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are lies which, though light as air, are as strong as links of steel. Let the colonies always keep the... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pàgines
...important for his view that structures are not simply foundations, but rather spread throughout the system: 'These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.'18 This dispersal throughout the system - Burke also uses the metaphor of rays of light being... | |
 | Jonathan M. Hansen - 2010 - 278 pàgines
...protection. Rising before Parliament in 1755, Burke urged his peers to "let the [American] colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government." Only then will they "cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of the power to tear... | |
 | John B. Morrall - 2004 - 162 pàgines
...more powerful. We quote again Burke's apparent anticipation of the ideal of the modern commonwealth: My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...from common names, from kindred blood, from similar priveleges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 pàgines
...number of strictly federal offenses, and secondly to nonpolitical ones." (Chap. 6, n. 59, above.) . . . My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. . . . Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 2006 - 469 pàgines
...masterful quality of the race, its intense and elevated conviction. "My hold on the colonies," he declares, "is in the close affection which grows from common...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the... | |
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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... 
