 | Alexander KENNEDY (Manager of the Union Bank of Australia.) - 1873 - 250 pagina’s
...character. Some bore the reputation of having been buccaneers, and familiar with — The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. These, however, were probably neither better nor worse than a collection of roving and enterprising... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pagina’s
...modern Scot, by means of superior subtlety, but by means of loose morals, and the Rob Roy philosophy That he should take, who has the power ; And he should keep, who can. And by the practical application of this law, the borderer, as he was called, lived on the labour of... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 pagina’s
...red handed ; but there is no such excuse for the law of the strongest. The ancient rule, the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep — who can. 'Lynch law' however seems to have got even beyond 'Jedburg law,' if we may go by the American Judge,... | |
 | Lucie Gordon (lady Duff-) - 1875 - 438 pagina’s
...quite of your mind about Italy and Germany. I hate the return of Europe to " The good old rule and simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can," nor can I ever be bullied into looking on "might as right." Many thanks for the papers. I am anxious... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 pagina’s
...red handed ; but there is no such excuse for the law of the strongest, The ancient rule, the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep — who can. ' Lynch law,' however, seems to have got even beyond ' Jedburg law,' if we may go by the American Judge,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1875 - 646 pagina’s
...marriage is founded on the rights, not of the woman, but of the man, being an illustration of the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. Among low races the wife is indeed literally the property of the husband. As Petruchio says of Catherine... | |
 | Half hours - 1875 - 376 pagina’s
...administered with prompt justice between rook and rook. There is no toleration among them for the doctrine that " he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." It is even said that an incorrigible offender has been strangled by his fellows ; but, as I have not... | |
 | Septimus Smet Thorburn - 1876 - 506 pagina’s
...STEENGTH. Until the annexation of the Punjab, twenty-six years ago, Pathans thought " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who con," quite sufficient for them, as the proverbs here given will illustrate. In the old days, and all... | |
 | James W. Miller - 1877 - 452 pagina’s
...to the traditions of his house, managed to grasp the whole, on the principle of ' The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can.' His lordship was, however, defeated in an attempt which he made to obtain Parliamentary powers to levy... | |
 | John Crawford (capt.) - 1878 - 372 pagina’s
...Providence. Why? Because no one dares make them afraid. The reivers who live by The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can, soon discover that so prudent a people are entitled to high respect, and they permit them to live in... | |
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Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,' 
