 | 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...dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement ! " Alas, fellow-citizens, for the country that has not and never hopes to have a population of small... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1896 - 420 pages
...for it is his own. One of the finest bursts of British eloquence was Lord Chatham's, when he said: " The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...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... | |
 | 1990 - 72 pages
...Affairs Division at (202/653-9808). "For a man's house is his castle...." Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 "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... | |
 | David L. Norton - 2023 - 220 pages
...enablement. It is the former function that receives emphasis in the words of the elder William Pitt: 'The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!" 35 A just and temperate... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...of the Hired Man," lines 118-19, The Poetry of Robert Frost, ed. Edward C. Lathem, p. 38 (1967). 861 The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! WILLIAM PITT, the elder, Earl of Chatham, speech in the House of Lords.— Henry Peter Brougham, Historical... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Modern Life and Progress," lecture (published in Hopes a nd Fears (or An, "The Lesser Arts." 1882). 31 he notion that the Welsh were great eaters of cheese. 4 The land of faery forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, LORD CHATHAM (1708-78).... | |
 | William J. Novak - 1996 - 412 pages
...private patriarchs ruled absolutely without fear of interference was best captured by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement!"48 Despite such sentimental attachment to houses as quintessentially private... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1996 - 622 pages
...remarks on government invasion of privacy: The poorest 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 may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement. Even the casual... | |
 | Joseph S. Nye, Philip D. Zelikow, David C. King - 1997 - 354 pages
...Chatham, caught the essence of this idea in the often-quoted lines attributed to him by Lord Brougham: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to...rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter!"11 The second body of ideas is that associated with the phrase of the early eighteenth-century... | |
 | Leonard W. Levy - 462 pages
...ordinary subject. William Pitt expressed it best in a speech in Parliament in 1763, when he declaimed: "The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance...enter; the rain may enter, but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."1 The assertion... | |
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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... 
