...claim solely upon the simple code, which regulated Rob Roy's dealings with his neighbours, that THEY MAY TAKE, WHO HAVE THE POWER ; AND THOSE MAY KEEP, WHO CAN. I thought it necessary to account for the spoliation of those books at this stage of my recitals ;...

...any system that is based upon the supposition that it is one of the laws of our being, •' That they may take who have the power, And those may keep who can." tamed a smaller amount of commodities than they would have done had those laws never existed. Were...

...kingdom had arrived at a more settled state, and the intruders were naturalised by " That (food old plan That those may take who have the power, And those may keep who can." Abergavenny retires from public notice — the lot of all small places which gather renown from scenes...

...heavy debt of its share in the war. This is the way of the world all the world over, like the good old plan, That those may take who have the power, And those may keep who can. The paralysis seems to have extended itself to the Italian kingdom of the future. the private conferences...

...side of one or other of the great parties to the war. It was the substitution of " The good old rale, the simple plan, That those may take who have the power, And those may keep who can" — for the universally recognised law of nations, f The American flag being now driven from the ocean,...

...If we are not avowedly going back to the so-called good old times and admitting that in all cases " those may take who have the power, and those may keep who can," we are doing something very like it in practice. Any nation sufficiently strong to disregard public...

...place among men whose rule of conduct exhibits itself in the robber chieftain's motto, " that they may take who have the power, and those may keep who can." That it is proposed now to do; but preparatory thereto, the author asks the reader's attention to a...

...made universally familiar by Mr Wordsworth's terse stanza — 1 The good old rule sufficeth them — the simple plan — That those may take who have the power, and those may keep who can." In the spirit of this elastic equity, the party of king Mahon had swept together the spoil of half...

...say, whoever has possession of anything keeps it, with very little regard to what his title may be. ' Those may take who have the power, And those may keep who can.' Primitive reasoning, my dear, but it strikes me we are fast lapsing back to first principles — community,...

...sovereignty of this sort is concerned, we are, whether we like it or not, evidently subject to the rule that — " Those may take who have the power, And those may keep who can." A problem is being worked out before the eyes of this generation, which strikingly illustrates how...