 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...even winked at such a thought. His policy seems to us an unadulterated example of the good old rule, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can. It was even proposed as an objection to Mr. Iluskisson's sys12 tern in favour of Canada, that a removal... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...there needed no further argument about right or justice. Georgia took its stand upon Rob Roy's law, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can ; and it forthwith proceeded to act upon it. It decreed in 1628, that the territories of the Cherokees... | |
 | 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...society. The golden rule, " Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you," is abandoned, for "The good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall...take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." But time and space would fail even to enumerate the many great and " crying evils " of our age ; and... | |
 | Nicholas Hill, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...1664, the English government, practising upon the Rob Roy principle, which it has not yet forgotten, " that he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can," took forcible possession of the then Dutch colonies of New Amsterdam and Fort Orange. The first colonial... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 846
...would not touch Upon his hot Saltara. Wild Rob Roy's rule ai dinner-hour, Around the crowded table, — That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who's able ! Yet here Disease, with trembling limb, And cheek without its roses, And faded lip and... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...of others ; and they naturally recognised no rights but such as were derived from physical force. " That he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can," expressed their code. Their system of migration was entirely founded on this idea. When a family sailed... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...relate to the administration of justice, and the improvement of agriculture. The transition from " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, While they shall keep who can"— to the regular administration of even-handed justice, and the protection,... | |
 | John Wade - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...superiority over my neighbour." Precisely the law of the strongest, that is, of barbarians — " The good old plan That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." FREDERICK n. OF PRUSSIA. 589 cessor, and a well-disciplined army, which enabled him to take advantage... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...government, claiming to have a much better title to the land than the natives, the all-prevailing one of " He shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can," disallowed Batman's purchase from the wild tribes ; how Batman dwindled and Fawkner grew, till he became,... | |
 | 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...glory, and the vassal acknowledged no restraint beyond that of superior force, obeyed no law save — " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall...take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." Here, high perched in his almost inaccessible eyrio, secure alike against open attack or sudden surprises,... | |
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The good old rule, The simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can. 
