 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1893 - 514 strani
...as " light as air though as strong as links of iron." What are these ties ? These ties depend upon the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and from equal protection in times of danger. Long may our Colonies look upon the Mother Country as Magna... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - 1893 - 544 strani
...as " light as air though as strong as links of iron." What are these ties ? These ties depend upon the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and from equal protection in times of danger. Long may our Colonies look upon the Mother Country as Magna... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 strani
...empire — my trust is in her interest in the British Constitution. My hold of the Colonies is in the 35 close affection which grows from common names, from...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the Colonists always keep 5 the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 408 strani
...empire — my trust is in her interest in the British Constitution. My hold of the Colonies is in the 35 close affection which grows from common names, from...light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the Colonists always keep 5 the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - 1965 - 412 strani
...by any sentiments of attachment towards Great Britain. " My hold of the colonies," wrote Burke, " is the close affection which grows from common names,...which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."1 But in these ties, save the last only, there is nothing to demand or to ensure political union.... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - 1976 - 276 strani
...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... | |
 | 1976 - 136 strani
...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... | |
 | Sir William John Victor Windeyer - 1978 - 40 strani
...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... | |
 | Julius Hunter, Julius K. Hunter - 1988 - 231 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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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. 
