 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1896 - 420 pages
...British eloquence was Lord Chatham's, 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 king... | |
 | 1896 - 316 pages
...morals, they were clearly and vilely criminal. As Lord Chatham said, 'a man's house is his castle, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England may never enter.' Every family may create its own standard of morals, its own atmosphere of taste and purity.... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1896 - 864 pages
...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 king of England cannot enter! All his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement ! " Alas, fellow-citizens,... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 pages
...may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the king of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement ! " Another extract from his " Speech on the Address to the Throne," in 1770, shows his love for the... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - 1897 - 860 pages
...is his castle." In the familiar words of 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." Nor was this conception of the sanctity of the private dwelling known only to the ancient law of our... | |
 | Emory Speer - 1897 - 176 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,...the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, but the king of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."... | |
 | 1898 - 1114 pages
...surrounded an English home, even against the king: " Tbe poorest man in bis 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 tbe threshold of that ruined... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1899 - 968 pages
...further.' "England's greatest statesman once said, 'the honest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown — it may be frail,...enter, but the King of England may not enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.' But this vaunted Hb•erty of the British... | |
 | 1899 - 1044 pages
...no further.' England's greatest statesman once said. The honest man may In his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, Its...enter, but the king of England may not enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement* But this vaunted liberty of the British... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 pages
...was spoken when Chatham said : " The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the force of the Crown ; it may be frail, its roof may shake,...enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." But the great orator... | |
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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... 
