...bore the reputation of having been buccaneers, and familiar with — The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. These, however, were probably neither better nor worse than a collection of roving and enterprising...

...immoral in resisting at all. The supreme law of political ethics is thus " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can." As Mr. Froude expresses it in the present work : " The superior part has a natural right to govern,...

...modern Scot, by means of superior subtlety, but by means of loose morals, and the Rob Roy philosophy That he should take, who has the power ; And he should keep, who can. And by the practical application of this law, the borderer, as he was called, lived on the labour of...

...Castiffaique, auditque Rliadamanthus. First hang and draw, Then try the cause by Lilford law. 'Jedburg justice' had much the same meaning. There was a rough...jury, asked them to 'make haste, because the room would be soon wanted for laying out the body !' 'All friends round the Wrekin' is the toast in which...

...idea of marriage is founded on the rights, not of the woman, but of the man, being an illustration of the good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can. Among low races the wife is indeed literally the property of the husband. As Petruchio says of Catherine...

...of your mind about Italy and Germany. I hate the return of Europe to " The good old rule and simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can," nor can I ever be bullied into looking on " might as right." Many thanks for the papers. I am anxious...

...of your mind about Italy and Germany. I hate the return of Europe to " The good old rule and simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can," nor can I ever be bullied into looking on "might as right." Many thanks for the papers. I am anxious...

...administered with prompt justice between rook and rook. There is no toleration among them for the doctrine that " he should take who has the power, and he should keep who can." It is even said that an incorrigible offender has been strangled by his fellows ; but, as I have not...

...the annexation of the Punjab, twenty-six years ago, Pathans thought " The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who con," quite sufficient for them, as the proverbs here given will illustrate. In the old days, and all...

...traditions of his house, managed to grasp the whole, on the principle of ' The good old rule, the simple plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can.' His lordship was, however, defeated in an attempt which he made to obtain Parliamentary powers to levy...