 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
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1908 - 328 דפים
...the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. — SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet. AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE is His CASTLE. 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... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1909 - 428 דפים
...in America — the immortal Pitt, announce as the great triumph of law in the British Isles, that : "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake ; the winds may blow through it ; the storms may enter — but the King of England cannot enter; all his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1909 - 1374 דפים
...compressed eloquence, he proclaimed the charter of an Englishman's liberty. ' The poorest man ' (he said) ' may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces...of the Crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; wind may blow through it ; the storm may enter, the rain may enter ; but the King of England cannot... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1909 - 710 דפים
...compressed eloquence, he proclaimed the charter of an Englishman's liberty. ' The poorest man ' (he said) ' may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces...of the Crown. It may be frail ; its roof may shake ; wind may blow through it ; the storm may enter, the rain may enter ; but the King of England cannot... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 936 דפים
...metonymy the image is an accompaniment of the object; that is, what contains it, stands for it, as, "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown," the Croirn standing for the King. Metonymy and synecdoche are, however, so nearly... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1909 - 88 דפים
...land the third, that he remained one whole day without doing any business of moment — Plutarch 5 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 enter... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 דפים
...may be found in the last two sentences of the famous passage from Pitt's Speech on the Excise Bill: " 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 storm... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1910 - 418 דפים
...sanctity which has ever surrounded the humblest English home. Said Chatham, in the British Parliament, "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...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... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1910 - 300 דפים
...land the third, that he remained one whole day without doing any business of moment — Plutarch 5 The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown Tt may be frail its roof may shake the wind may blow through it the storms may enter... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1912 - 328 דפים
...the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. EARL OF CHATHAM — Speech on the Excise Bill. 'Tfs liberty alone that gives the... | |
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