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" The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. "
The Wellington ministry (concluded) The Grey ministry - Page 301
by Albany Fonblanque - 1837
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

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...
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The Loyal Reformers' Gazette, Volume 3

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,...
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The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, Volume 2

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...
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British Colonies in North America: Canada

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...
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A Tour of Duty in California: Including a Description of the Gold Region ...

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...
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Footprints of Famous Men: Designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry

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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 121

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...
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The Tanjore Mahratta Principality in Southern India: The Land of the Chola ...

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...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 38

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"...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 41

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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