| Anson Phelps Stokes - 1895 - 260 pagina’s
...is more complicated than barbarism. Just legislation is more complicated than " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." tiveness of labor ; but it seems to me they have not sufficiently considered and expounded the effects... | |
| 1895 - 612 pagina’s
...overtly sneered at ' sheepskin titles,' while they preferred to any royal ' charter ' the good old plan ' that he should ' take who has the power, and he should keep who can.' Profoundly lawless may have been such a theory, and very masterful -was their practice, yet it is certain... | |
| John Watson - 1895 - 340 pagina’s
...another because we both wish to have the same land, the only way to settle the conflicting claims is that " he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." " Might is right." Thus the unlimited exercise of desire leads to violence, to the war of all against... | |
| Public Archives of Canada - 1895 - 616 pagina’s
...discovery and settlement, but all such arguments seemed to resolve themselves into the old method, " that he should take who has the power and he should keep who can." The abortive attempt to settle Sable Island, the fate of the unfortunate criminals left on that sand... | |
| William Humphrey - 1896 - 76 pagina’s
...vernacular as, "the weakest must go to the wall," or metrically, as the outcome of— The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power And he should keep who can. If the theft had been committed by the father of the boy in his own school-days, the punishment would... | |
| James Johnston - 1897 - 436 pagina’s
...what are called commercial rights— in those days when mighty nations acted on " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can " — the Dutch, having successfully asserted their independence of the yoke of . Roman superstition... | |
| Washington Gladden - 1897 - 252 pagina’s
...law," by which they mean the law of greed and strife, the ethics of Rob Roy,— " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power And he should keep who can," is not a natural law; it is an unnatural law; it is a crime against nature ; the law of brotherhood... | |
| James Johnston - 1898 - 424 pagina’s
...what are called commercial rights— in those days when mighty nations acted on " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can "— the Dutch, having successfully asserted their independence of the yoke of Roman superstition and... | |
| John Watson - 1898 - 526 pagina’s
...another because we both wish to have the same land, the only way to settle the conflicting claims is that "he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." " Might is right." Thus the unlimited exercise of desire leads to violence, to the war of all against... | |
| George Gore - 1899 - 604 pagina’s
...sayings, " might is right," " possession is ninetenths of the law," " men get by might and keep by right," that " he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can," etc. It necessarily follows that, if the whole system of Nature is one of law and order, entirely governed... | |
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