| 1881 - 622 страница
...the time raised a laugh, and even caused the leader of the Opposition to quote the old couplet— ' That he should take who had the power, And he should keep who can ' — • it puts shortly and accurately the true position of the tenant. If such a cause as the competition... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 страница
...some modern additions of various dates, — a formidable place in the rieving days, when it was held that " He should take who had the power, And he should keep who can. Hitherto the traveller will have observed the birch trees thickening as he proceeds, and here he will... | |
| 1844 - 514 страница
...its bigotry and heathenism, the fighting barons of feudal times, whose digest of common law was, " That he should take who had the power, And he should keep who can ;" Pope Gregory, Hildebrand, William the Conqueror, Oliver Cromwell, and even the French Revolution... | |
| 1844 - 1022 страница
...its bigotry and heathenism, the fighting barons of feudal times, whose digest of common law was, " That he should take who had the power, And he should keep who can ;" Pope Gregory, Hildebrand, William the Conqueror, Oliver Cromwell, and even the French Revolution... | |
| 1851 - 384 страница
...land relate the tale of flood and field, and the wild commotion of other days, when all men recognised the good old plan, that " He should take who had the...the mountain stream keep up a perpetual music, which harmonizes well with the rugged scene, and the scream of the eagle from its eyry among the rocks, accords... | |
| 1851 - 704 страница
...modern additions of various dates,—a formidable place in the rieving days, when it was held that " Ho should take who had the power. And he should keep who can." Hitherto the traveller will have observed the birch trees thickening as he proceeds, and here he will... | |
| Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 310 страница
...made, the residue confiscated to the Crown, in those good old days when the simple plan prevailed, " that he should take who had the power, and he should keep who can;" till the immediate predecessors of the present representative found themselves possessed of merely... | |
| 1868 - 484 страница
...positively refused to sell anything to the intruders, and it was decided to follow out the old rule — " That he should take who had the power, And he should keep who can ; " But it happened that the Coreans had the best of the argument, for while the would be marauders... | |
| 1873 - 634 страница
...little about mutual injuries on the high seas, but to have acquiesced in the ' good old plan — ' 1 That he should take who had the power, And he should keep who cau.' But when a pretext for war was wanted, these little accidents assumed a graver character ; and... | |
| 1876 - 496 страница
...condition p'lvn'cil strengh determined the inequality of it» nuits— " That good old law— that simple plan That he should take who had the power— And he should keep who can " **• then inaugurated ; and, whilst brute strength has given plsee to mental culture in actuating... | |
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