 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1878 - 424 pagina’s
...contained him and the relations between the sexes, as Lubbock has it, were ordered " on the good old plan, that he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." This state of things still exists among the Ansarians, the Keiaz, the Eimauk, the Koryaks, the Mpongme,... | |
 | 1889 - 84 pagina’s
...warriors, whose trust was in their stout hearts and strong right arms, and who knew no law but The good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. In another respect it is most important that the world, should as far and so long as possible, hold... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1881 - 512 pagina’s
...rule then was that good old rule which Wordsworth admired so much for its patriarchal simplicity — "That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. " Once in blue water, the Tarpaulin, as the rough-handed skipper of that day was called, considered... | |
 | Edward B. Hamley - 1881 - 144 pagina’s
...historian, our guide, philosopher, and friend ? Is it not exactly the simple code of law of Eob Eoy — " That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can " ? and was Eob's code " in accordance with the laws of this universe," or was it " Devil-worship "... | |
 | Boys - 1881 - 392 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... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1882 - 192 pagina’s
...far-off days in the history of nations when the only law prevailing was the law of the strongest — the " simple plan," — " That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." ' 1 It is certainly possible to draw a less brutal and more humorous moral from this version of the... | |
 | 1883 - 860 pagina’s
...Here, as in the front, precedence at a fence, gap, or gate is settled on the lines of the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. The late Mr. Surtees, whose "Jorrocks," " Sponge," and " Facey Romford " are immortal characters, used... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1883 - 358 pagina’s
...itself, he is restrained by no conscientious scruple. Might makes right, and he Follows the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. The Arab makes a fine distinction between stealing and robbing. He is not a thief, and you cannot offer... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1884 - 312 pagina’s
...itself, he is restrained by no conscientious scruple. Might makes right ; and he " Follows the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." The Arab makes a fine distinction between stealing and robbing. He is not a thief, and you cannot offer... | |
 | E. O. Macdevitt - 1884 - 588 pagina’s
...would include a forcible taking of possession by the landlord ; the law would then really come to be " that he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." The case of Taylenr v. Wilden* was quoted, but that case has no application to Ireland at all. Section... | |
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Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,' 
