 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...profusion, reduces men to a state of internecine war, such as prevails among wild beasts. " For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." — Rob Roys Grave. 684 Catch-polt. A slang name... | |
 | Alexander Gruar Forbes - 1874 - 450 pages
...condition of international law in Inner Africa is somewhat peculiar, both among chiefs and people. " The good old rule Sufficeth them — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can." WORDSWORTH, Rob Boy's Grave. We are told that his... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...heard no more. ibid. A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. Rob Roy's Grave. Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Ibid. The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord... | |
 | 1921 - 724 pages
...stories of rapine, pillage, and murder. There the battle has ever been to the >trong. There, ever, The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan,...have the power, And they should keep who can. The share of the Near East in all this welter of conquest and revolution, savagery and progress, fanaticism... | |
 | Edwin Russell Jackman, Reub A. Long - 1964 - 444 pages
...of the world. William Wordsworth's oft-quoted lines apply well to most of the animal kingdom: . . . The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. This seems to be wandering away from chipmunks. Two... | |
 | National Tax Association - 1925 - 642 pages
...construction, may not soundly assume that, as to the makers of such a law — ' The good old rule Suffice th them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.' " The question as to whether the state had jurisdiction to impose such a tax was clearly evaded. The statute... | |
 | Bertram M. Gross - 1980 - 450 pages
...Abundance of Shortages" in "Friendly Fascist Economics" (chapter 10). 3 The Mysterious Establishment The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are no stories or magazine... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...ones must not unwatch'd go. Claudius, Hamlet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan. That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet You only... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1991 - 942 pages
...runs most strong!)'. 500.2—4 "The good . . . can."] In Wordsworth, the stanza reads: "For why? — because the good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take, who have the power, / And they should keep who can." 503.31-32 true . . . bush."] The proverb is from... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 904 pages
...neighbors, and failing in this, must suffer irretrievable loss ; that might is the only protection. "The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan,...have the power, And they should keep who can." The field is open for exploitation to every man who covet* the possessions of another or the water which... | |
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For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. 
