 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 pages
...Englishman's house is his castle. His lordship said, " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its...the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter; but the King of England cannot enter! All his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."... | |
 | Leland A. Webster - Sociology - 1866 - 372 pages
...assertion in the immortal words of Lord Chatham — "The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail ; its...enter ; the rain may enter ; but the King of England cannot enter. All his power dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement." The late great... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1907 - 600 pages
...Lord Chatham declared of the British constitution: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown ; it may be frail, its...the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, but the King of England can not enter : all his forces dare not cross the threshhold of the ruined... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...remembers the eloquent passage from Chatham : " The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail; its...dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." Speech on General Warrants. And see Lieber,. Civil Liberty and Self-Government, ch. 6. part of our... | |
 | William Pittenger - Elocution - 1868 - 240 pages
...that remains, but it will not soon be forgotten : " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its...— the rain may enter— but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement ! " Lord Macaulay,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1096 pages
...Every man's house is hi4 castle " : " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the power of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake,...it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter— but tho King of England cannot enter; all his power dared not cross the thresbhold of the ruined tenement."... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1058 pages
...Every man's house is his castle " : " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the power of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake,...wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the ram may enter — but the King of England cannot enter; all his power dared not cross the threshhold... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...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 may enter, the rain may enter, — but the King of England cannot enter ! all his forces dare... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Reconstruction - 1868 - 36 pages
...eloquence was that of Lord Chatham, when he said : " 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 winds of heaven may blow through every cranny ; the storm may enter ; the rain may enter ; but the... | |
 | Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...utterance to the following eloquent language : " The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its...the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter it! but the king of England cannot enter it! All his power dares not cross the threshold of that ruined... | |
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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 storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter !— all his... 
