 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 páginas
...of driving them before me with this crutch !" — is well known. Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's house is his castle. It was the one that Lord Denman always admired the most. The close agreement of Lord Chatham with that... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 462 páginas
...of driving them before me with this crutch !" — is well known. Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's house is his castle. It was the one that Lord Denman always admired the most. The close agreement of Lord Chatham with that... | |
 | William Lennie - 1872 - 248 páginas
...Necessity is the argument of tyrants. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. Judge not according to the appearance. A borrower is servant to the lender. Drowsiness... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 560 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 páginas
...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 - 1874 - 798 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...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 páginas
...— 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 páginas
...of driving them before me with this crutch ! ' — is well kuown. Perhaps the finest of them all is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every...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 páginas
...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.... | |
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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 storms may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter ! All his forces dare not... 
