...pine-tree's shade, Most solemn words can say. LORD JOHN MANNERS. 10. The good old rule — the simple plan — That he should take who has the power, And he should keep — who can. 11 Oh, it were sweet for our country to die! How softly reposes Warrior youth on his bier, wet by the...

...confidence between the several communities, and the only law was, " The good old rule — the simple plan. That he should take who has the power, And he should keep — who can." The walls of the Cyclopean cities are formed of huge blocks of limestone or other calcareous stone,...

...suppressed, and everything reduced to the rule of the strongest — to ''The good i>l 1 ni\e, the simple plan That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who cao." Let Russia obtain her protectorate over the Greek Christians of Turkey, and France might with...

...powerful adversary, and which ever, in practice, resolves itself into *' The good old rnlo, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who cao. " The really grave objection, however, to the European protectorate proposed by the Western Powers...

...certain protection for his person. The universal system i* tiro simple plan, as the poet says — * That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can.' That is the condition of mankind at this moment, after 4,000 years of existence, of effort, and of...

...within his very nature lies the acknowledged principle, as that on which all rights ultimately depend, that " he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." Nor, under the circumstances, is this unreasonable iu him. For where there is no absolute standard...

...— a law, which once prevailed in Europe as well as Australasia — " The ancient rule, the golden plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." Mana is, in fact, nothing else but that grasp over other people's privileges and properties which a...

...proceeding, we are thrown back, by the very conditions of the controversy, on " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." If war is to exist then, if belligerent rights are to be recognised, all that even armed neutrals could...

...desolation. So it was, the strong and the powerful cheering each other on by "The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." and leave it to others to determine its truth or fiction for themselves: — ' "The monks of Melros...

...with any unpleasant consequences, whether by way of retaliation or as merely an incident in the same "Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can," to roll themselves into a sort of defensive ball. The mode of progression is doubtful. The animal may...