 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pagina’s
...brilliant illustration of the celebrated maxim in English law, that every man's house is his castle: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...enter—but the king of England cannot enter ! all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement !" ATTERBTJRY'S WIT. Atterbury, the celebrated... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pagina’s
...Parliament made a fine allusion once to the maxim of English law, that every man's house is his castle: " 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pagina’s
...down to us. containing one of the finest bursts of his eloquence. " The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may...the wind may blow through it ; the storm may enter it ; but the King of England can not enter it ! All his power dares not cross the threshold of that... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1853 - 502 pagina’s
...finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's house is his castle. " 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... | |
 | 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 pagina’s
...compressed eloquence, he proclaimed the charter of an English,n's liberty. e poorest man ' (he said) ' may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail ; its roof may ,ke ; wind may blow through it ; the storm may enter, the may enter ; but the King of England cannot... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pagina’s
...English law, that " Every man's house is his castle,"—a maxim so finely amplified by Lord Chatham: " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown, It may lie frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—out the king... | |
 | 1856 - 772 pagina’s
...the people ami government. In an argument on Parliamentary Privilege, he says :— The poorest тип may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, tho wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - 528 pagina’s
...Lord Chatham with that great Magistrate on the question of Parliamentary Privilege may well be noted. "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frailits roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 748 pagina’s
...on Lord Chatham's boast that every Englishman's house is his castle. ' The poorest man,' says he, ' may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces...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... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 766 pagina’s
...on Lord Chatham's boast that every Englishman's house is his castle. ' The poorest man,' says he, ' may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces...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... | |
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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 
