 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 926 páginas
...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 Cron-n standing for the King. Metonymy and synecdoche are, however, so nearly... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 434 páginas
...king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. CHARLES I (1600-49). The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. WILLIAM PITT, Earl of Chatham (1708,78) — in a speech on the Excise Bill. He... | |
 | Alabama - 1907 - 1132 páginas
...— Medlock v. State, 114 Ala. 6 (22 So. 112). Lord Chatam said: "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 mind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the king may not; and all his... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1908 - 328 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 936 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
