 The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake : the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter ! All his forces dare not...  The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk - עמוד 30מאת Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 192 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 560 דפים
...Chatham was las true in the eleventh century as in the eighteenth : " The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; the storm may enter it ; but the king of England cannot enter it. All his Dower dares not cross the threshold... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 דפים
...Necessity is the argument of tyrants,1 it is the creed of slaves. Speech on the India Bill. Nov. 1783. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; the wind may blow through it ; the storms... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 דפים
...foreign strand ?" In England, with all her faults, in the words of Lord Chatham, one can say — " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it ; the storms... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 דפים
...landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never — never — never. Speech, Nov. 18, 1777. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; the wind may blow through it ; the storms... | |
 | William Johnson Cocker - 1878 - 156 דפים
...— shepherd voices." — Dickens. " Wealth has its temptations, — so has power." — Robertson. " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the. crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 דפים
...with this crutch ! ' — is well kuown. Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's house is his castle....bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may bo frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the raiu... | |
 | 1907 - 2170 דפים
...our government over that of every other nation. Lord Chatham declared of the British Constitution : "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof nmy shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm rn.iy enter, but the King of England cannot enter.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Robert William Hughes - 1880 - 750 דפים
...the notable words which the elder Pitt pointed at George III, would have had no truth or meaning : The poorest man may, in his cottage. bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1880 - 742 דפים
...the notable words which the elder Pitt pointed at George III, would have had no truth or meaning : The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; the wind may blow through it; the storms... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 דפים
...Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's heuse is his castle. ' The poorest man may in his cottage...bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may bo frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain... | |
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