 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1817 - 744 pages
...each clan was, in a great measure, an independent community, and when the law was— " The ancient, simple plan, " That they shall take who have the power, " And they shall keep who can." Within a few miles of Killin the shape of the ground is altered; the space between the road and the... | |
 | Larkin - 1819 - 372 pages
...each clan was, in a great measure, an independent community, and when the law was — " The ancient, simple plan, " That they shall take who have the power, " And they shall keep who can." Within a few miles of Killin the shape of the ground is altered ; the space between the road and the... | |
 | Francis Walker Gilmer - 1828 - 206 pages
...course, they despise the principles of vulgar calculation ; the " good old rule sufficeth •'them; that they shall take who have the power, and " they shall keep who can. " They will take all they can get, be assured. Even in Virginia, where the risk until recently was... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...this event. National affairs were then conducted pretty much according to that " ' Good old-fashioned plan, That they shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can.' " Edgar, the noble, the chivalrous Edgar, was here with his army and fleet in 971, and received, on... | |
 | John James Blunt - 1832 - 352 pages
...that which it never gave, and which it never had to give.1 But might overcomes right — There is a simple plan, That they shall take, who have the power, And they shall keep who can. And accordingly the council of Cromwell prevailed with the king and the courtiers, and Cranmer and... | |
 | William M. Gouge - 1833 - 414 pages
...honorable mode of making a living, now left for honest men." " For why ? The good old rule sufficeth still, The simple plan — That they shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can." " Many ingenious men" says an American author, " have amused themselves and others, in forming theories... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...this event. National affairs were then conducted pretty much according to that " ' Good old-fashioned plan, That they shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can.' 11 Edgar, the noble, the chivalrous Edgar, was here with his army and fleet in 071, and received, on... | |
 | Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...in a vast majority of cases at least, nations as well as individuals are actuated by the old rule, that " They shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can." Well, I say, with these and such like feelings it could not but be a glorious sight to behold the noble... | |
 | 1842 - 422 pages
...living, now left for honest men." " For why 1 The good old rule su"keth still, The simple planThat they shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can." " Many ingenious men," says an American author, " have amused themselves and others, in forming theories... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...done what was right in his own eyes ; and the only rule has been the maxim of Rob Roy,— " There is a simple plan, That they shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can.' ' This is the laissez faire system broadly acted on. The inconvenience of such a state of things has... | |
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good old rule, the simple plan that they shall take who have the power and they shall keep who can. 
