 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 82 pàgines
...necessary ; or, if you please, to submit to it, as a necessary evil." " My hold of the colonies/' he said, "is in the close affection which grows from common...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... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1875 - 120 pàgines
...necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it, as a necessary evil." " My hold of the colonies,'' he said, " is in the close affection which grows from common...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are tie.;, which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pàgines
...from his very celebrated essay, Reflections on the Freneh Revolution. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.* 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 660 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... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1876 - 604 pàgines
...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 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 governments, they will cling... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pàgines
...from his very celebrated essay, Reflectious on the French Revolution. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.* 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... | |
 | 1976 - 136 pàgines
...essential part of it, he drew forth for his hearers the impalpable essence of interimperial co-operation: 'the close affection which grows from common names,...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection . . . ties which though light as air are as strong as links of iron'. As an essential preliminary to... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - 1976 - 276 pàgines
...justice. Rather than attempting to hold the empire together by coercion, the mother country should foster "the close affection which grows from common names,...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. . " Instead of insisting on Parliament's right to tax the colonies, or demanding that the individual... | |
 | Sir William John Victor Windeyer - 1978 - 40 pàgines
...thirty other lands. Rather it denotes simply a relationship of Australia to Britain - a reminder of the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron of which Edmund Burke spoke. I shall now say a little of some aspects of geography and history - well... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
