 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 halaman
...that gave the right of possession to the strongest; as a living poet has happily defined it: " the simple plan, That they should take, who had the power, And they should keep who can" — a custom finally abolished by James I., in 1605. From this event perhaps the present Irish... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 448 halaman
...that gave the right of possession to the strongest; as a living poet has happily defined it: " the simple plan, That they should take, who had the power, And they should keep who can" — a custom finally abolished by James I., in 1605. From this event perhaps the present Irish... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 638 halaman
...profession, as long as the Spanish cattle and swine pens were stocked, and at their service : _____ — The good old rule Sufficed them — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep— who can. The first land-marauder was an Englishman, of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 halaman
...importance, and bore to those under whom they lived very nearly the same relation which the Humsauyas, described by Mr Elphinstone, bear to the Ooloss, or...should take who had the power, And they should keep who can." 1 But the more prudent chiefs had now learned that there was a world beyond the mountains, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 584 halaman
...trough." The most powerful of the Highland chiefs became in latter times frequenters of the Scottislt court, and often obtained from the monarchs grants...should take who had the power, And they should keep who can."1 But the more prudent chiefs had now learned that there was a world beyond the mountains, and... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 halaman
...ind< the excuse of such authority towards the < party, who lived in a state of society in ' perior force necessarily constituted right. " For why ? —...should take who had the power, And they should keep who can."1 But the more prudent chiefs had nov that there was a world beyond the mounl that there were... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1837 - 446 halaman
...could on the subjects of the King of Spain. This doctrine was very popular in England, where still -" the good old rule Sufficed them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." • Hawkins' Personal Narrative, in Hakluyt, vol.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 halaman
...frequenters of the Scottish court, and often obtained from the monarchs grants of lands and jurisdiction, which, at convenient times, they failed not to use...efforts, owing to the weakness of the government, were but transient and desultory ; yet the great houses of Argyle, Hun.tley, Athole, and others, whose rank... | |
 | John M. Leighton - 1840 - 404 halaman
...seem to have acted very much on the principles which, according to Wordsworth, influenced Bob Roy, " That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can." t P. 204. J Many of these existed very recently. In several of the charters from the superior,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 halaman
...lived in a state of society in which superior force necessarily constituted right. " For why?—because the good old rule Sufficed them; the simple plan That they should take who had the power, Aud they should keep who can."* But the more prudent chiefs had now learned that there was a world... | |
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That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can. 
