 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Free trade - 1830 - 80 pages
...even winked at such a thought. His policy seems to us an unadulterated example of the good old rule, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can. It was even proposed as an objection to Mr. Iluskisson's sys12 tern in favour of Canada, that a removal... | |
 | William Howitt - Atrocities - 1838 - 552 pages
...there needed no further argument about right or justice. Georgia took its stand upon Rob Roy's law, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can ; and it forthwith proceeded to act upon it. It decreed in 1628, that the territories of the Cherokees... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...as you would that they should do unto you," is abandoned, for "The good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." But time and space would fail even to enumerate the many great and " crying evils " of our age ; and... | |
 | Nicholas Hill, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 726 pages
...1664, the English government, practising upon the Rob Roy principle, which it has not yet forgotten, " that he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can," took forcible possession of the then Dutch colonies of New Amsterdam and Fort Orange. The first colonial... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pages
...would not touch Upon his hot Saltara. Wild Rob Roy's rule ai dinner-hour, Around the crowded table, — That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who's able ! Yet here Disease, with trembling limb, And cheek without its roses, And faded lip and... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - Great Britain - 1862 - 456 pages
...of others ; and they naturally recognised no rights but such as were derived from physical force. " That he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can," expressed their code. Their system of migration was entirely founded on this idea. When a family sailed... | |
 | John Wade - England - 1856 - 862 pages
...over my neighbour." Precisely the law of the strongest, that is, of barbarians — " The good old plan That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." FREDERICK n. OF PRUSSIA. 589 cessor, and a well-disciplined army, which enabled him to take advantage... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1857 - 652 pages
...government, claiming to have a much better title to the land than the natives, the all-prevailing one of " He shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can," disallowed Batman's purchase from the wild tribes ; how Batman dwindled and Fawkner grew, till he became,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1860 - 378 pages
...restraint beyond that of superior force, obeyed no law save — " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can." Here, high perched in his almost inaccessible eyrio, secure alike against open attack or sudden surprises,... | |
 | John Thrupp - Anglo-Saxons - 1862 - 438 pages
...of others ; and they naturally recognised no rights but such as were derived from physical force. " That he shall take who has the power, and he shall keep who can," expressed their code. Their system of migration was entirely founded on this idea. When a family sailed... | |
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That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can. 
