| 1824 - 920 Seiten
...men, are to be oppressed because there is a physical possibility of doing so, why do we not all return to * The good old rule, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can?' If right depends on might, why does not the numerical... | |
| 1833 - 498 Seiten
...that the name • >i "Equitable Adjustment" is not so inappropriate to the design of those; ••i ho have advocated it, as may at first appear, and that...clothing of the sentiment of those, who yet hold to the r " Good old rule, the «impie plan, That they •hould take, who have the power, And they should keep,... | |
| 1837 - 486 Seiten
...the power, we may rob the poor of his wages and of all legal right to claim them. Adhering evermore to " the good old rule, the simple plan. That they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." (3.) That we may shut out the light of heaven, even... | |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1847 - 278 Seiten
...employed, and that equality is, like the Irishman's reciprocity, all of one side — in short, a return to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." This is further illustrated by the affair of the... | |
| Joseph Warren Revere - 1849 - 354 Seiten
...advantage of the armed party under my command for the purpose of obtaining Indian servants according to " the good old rule, the simple plan — That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." The Canadian Gendron indeed did not hesitate to... | |
| John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 Seiten
...members of the corporate body, principally concerned, were deaf to entreaty. They strenuously adhered to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can j" and sternly refused him permission to open even... | |
| 1861 - 522 Seiten
...was a bandit chief as much as the rest of the nobility. He stuck pretty nearly as close as the others to The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.* Archdeacon Coxe represents him at this period of... | |
| William Hickey - 1874 - 486 Seiten
...indignation with which one contemplates this act of violence and force, which is only to be referred to the good old rule, the simple plan, ' That they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can ;' if that is to be allowed as the ground of it, let... | |
| 1880 - 1112 Seiten
...years a surplus of .£530,000. This surplus, we have just discovered, was obtained by having recourse to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." If the Local Governments had not been. " squeezed"... | |
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