| Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1829 - 442 pages
...power for its support. I had almost said sir.if it will adopt the savage rule — the lawless maxim of "Let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can." I must leave all I have said out of the question and confine myself entirely to a coldexamination of... | |
| Samuel Lyde - Islamic sects - 1860 - 350 pages
...subject to deal with ; as often sulking as smiling. The people not only rob others, but one another. " Let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can," is their motto. I come now to other bad features of the Ansairee character. The reader, after what... | |
| Colonies - 1870 - 400 pages
...sold openly or behind a transparent veil — where civil rights are regulated under the " good old plan" of — Let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can ; and where crime escapes punishment through the corruption of officials. In such is it our duty to interfere... | |
| The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1870 - 796 pages
...Beacons to Tredegar Park. In fact, so far as the pasturage of the common was concerned, Rob Roy's rule, " let him take who has the power, and let him keep who can," appears to have been the only rule of life. Mountain-sheep in those days were never known to see a... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 996 pages
...Europe have been incurred in this futile and foolish attempt to set up as a rule among nations : " Let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can." The business man who fully comprehends the function of the merchant and of the manufacturer, and the... | |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1870 - 750 pages
...Beacons to Tredegar Park. In fact, so far as the pasturage of the common was concerned, Rob Roy's rule, " let him take who has the power, and let him keep who can," appears to have been the only rule of life. Mountain-sheep in those days were never known to see a... | |
| Charles Gutch - 1883
...money, or power, or pleasure, has for his motto " Me only." He does not say it, but he lives it. " Let him take who has the power, and let him keep who can." He pays his rates and taxes (or the law would make him), and as for the rest — "Me only." And in... | |
| 1878 - 588 pages
...of these bypast generations, when might та right, and law was embodied in the pithy summary, • Let him take who has the power, and let him keep who can.' This opening chapter reads, as the saying is, like a novel, but let us be thankful that we live in... | |
| California - 1880 - 604 pages
...constitution or law of the land. They are subject only to ' ' The good old law, the ancient plan : Let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can." Possessing so important a function in our government — take them one and all — in great cities... | |
| John Mills - 1882 - 476 pages
...deemed his hereditary property, let the title be derived only from the good old plan of: ' Letting him take who has the power, And let him keep who can.' The feudal power of the Lefernes had existed too long for the oldest inhabitant of the county to relate... | |
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