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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... "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 164
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...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...power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it lie once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another ; that these...
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Britain and Her Colonies

Jesse Beaufort Hurlbert - Great Britain - 1865 - 296 pages
...similar privileges and equal protection. These ai;e ties which, though light as air, are as strong as iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their...government, they will cling and grapple to you, and no power under Heaven will be able to tear them from your allegiance. But let it once be understood that...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 584 pages
...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...associated with your government, — they will cling md grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
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American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of ...

John A. Marshall - Martial law - 1869 - 754 pages
...their personal rights ; for, in the language of the great English orator and statesman, Edmund Burke, " Let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and the people's privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation, the...
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Speeches of Thomas Lord Erskine, Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 586 pages
...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...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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Australia and New Zealand, Volumes 1-3

Anthony Trollope - Australia - 1873 - 1882 pages
...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air. are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep...will be of power to tear them from their allegiance." Nothing can be grander, — nothing sweeter, — than this. There may still be some who think that...
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The Sixth Progressive Reader, Or Oratorical Class-book: With a Treatise on ...

Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...America, transmitted hither ? Do not delude yourselves ! You never can receive it — no, not a shilling ! Let the Colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, and they will cling and grapple to you. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as privi leges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone...
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The Early American Spirit, and the Genesis of it: An Address Delivered ...

Richard Salter Storrs - Ethnology - 1875 - 82 pages
...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep...will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. . . The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the...
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Beeton's Public Speaker. A Collection of Specimens of British and Foreign ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though hght as air, yet are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always...keep the idea of their civil rights associated with our government — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power...
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