 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 460 pages
...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...forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof * There hangs so much doubt upon the charge brought against Lord Chatham, of having himself employed... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 488 pages
...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...all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roofj i * There hangs BO much doubt upon the charge brought against Lord Chatham, of having himself... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 350 pages
...driving them before me with this crutch!"—is well known. Perhaps the finest of all, is his allusion to the maxim of English law, that every man's house...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1853 - 502 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...Chatham was as 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 power dares not cross the threshold... | |
 | Ireland - 1856 - 782 pages
...fair!/ tried between the people and government. In an argument on Parliamentary Privilege, he says : — The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forcea of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may ahake, the wind mar blow through it, the storm may... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - Corrections - 1857 - 740 pages
...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 of the Crown. I* may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - Corrections - 1857 - 766 pages
...Lord Chatham's boast that every Euglut man's house is his castle. ' The poorest man/ says he, ' aa? in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow throng it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter,... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...kingdom is undone." Perhaps the finest of the celebrated passages of his speeches t* {bis allusion to the maxim of English law, that Every Man's House...— its roof may shake — the wind may blow through — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his... | |
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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... 
