| Arminianism - 1824 - 920 pages
...men, are to be oppressed because there is a physical possibility of doing so, why do we not all return to * The good old rule, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can?' If right depends on might, why does not the numerical... | |
| 1833 - 498 pages
...that the name • >i "Equitable Adjustment" is not so inappropriate to the design of those; ••i ho have advocated it, as may at first appear, and that...clothing of the sentiment of those, who yet hold to the r " Good old rule, the «impie plan, That they •hould take, who have the power, And they should keep,... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...the power, we may rob the poor of his wages and of all legal right to claim them. Adhering evermore to " the good old rule, the simple plan. That they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." (3.) That we may shut out the light of heaven, even... | |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Canada - 1847 - 278 pages
...employed, and that equality is, like the Irishman's reciprocity, all of one side — in short, a return to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." This is further illustrated by the affair of the... | |
| Joseph Warren Revere - California - 1849 - 354 pages
...advantage of the armed party under my command for the purpose of obtaining Indian servants according to " the good old rule, the simple plan — That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." The Canadian Gendron indeed did not hesitate to... | |
| John George Edgar - Artists - 1854 - 382 pages
...members of the corporate body, principally concerned, were deaf to entreaty. They strenuously adhered to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can j" and sternly refused him permission to open even... | |
| 1861 - 522 pages
...was a bandit chief as much as the rest of the nobility. He stuck pretty nearly as close as the others to The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.* Archdeacon Coxe represents him at this period of... | |
| William Hickey - Maratha (Indic people) - 1874 - 486 pages
...indignation with which one contemplates this act of violence and force, which is only to be referred to the good old rule, the simple plan, ' That they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can ;' if that is to be allowed as the ground of it, let... | |
| Literature - 1880 - 1112 pages
...years a surplus of .£530,000. This surplus, we have just discovered, was obtained by having recourse to " The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." If the Local Governments had not been. " squeezed"... | |
| England - 1884 - 852 pages
...would be to avow that the property of the rich and strong only is to be respected, and to give sanction to — • ' The good old rule, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." JESSE COLLIKGS. THE GUIDE OF ISLAM. WHO and what... | |
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