 | 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... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1829 - 570 pages
...believe, afterwards raised from £3 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Colonies - 1870 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Of let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can, the Boers now proceeded to possess themselves of as much territory as they wanted. 
