 | Union Safety Committee - 1851 - 70 páginas
...regard for the claims of the weak ? In the words of a Highland song of the olden time, " For why 7 because the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they must get who have the power, And they must keep who can." May Vermont be permitted to pass laws to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1852 - 324 páginas
...that travel in the wind. With them no strife can last — they live In peace — and peace of mind. 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 was ostensibly a dealer in cattle, and he cared... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1852 - 532 páginas
...the advantages of a dry morsel and quietness, rather preferring Wordsworth's view of the case — " The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan — That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can " There was an old castle by a small river, only a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 páginas
...that travel on the wind ! >Vith them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind. M 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. A lesson that is quickly learned, A signal this which... | |
 | 1855 - 784 páginas
...llelsing, from his strongholds on both sides of the Sound, did plunder the merchantmen as they passed : — For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan. That they should take that have the power, And they should keep who can ! For the last two centuries Denmark has been able... | |
 | 1855 - 528 páginas
...Commission in 1835 might be thought to have adopted as the basis of their reforms Rob Roy's morality — ' the good old rule, Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.1 benefices, and the increase of parochial ministrations... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 572 páginas
...apprentice, I wiii gie you the refusai o* them." — Part IL B I6y. LIBRARY EDITION. VOL. IV. HOB EOT. For why ? Because the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, Tbat they should take who hare the power, And they should keep who can. ROB liov's Ciu vK. . . . WorimrA.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 242 páginas
...those that travel on the wind ; Whh them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind. " 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. " A lesson which is quickly learn'd, A signal through... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...may be again. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. Rob Roy's Grave. St. 9. Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Yarrow Unvisited. The swan on still St. Mary's Lake... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 páginas
...stormy days, when the principles of policy were summed up hi my friend Mr Wordsworth's lines: — 0 the good old rule Sufficeth them ; the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." NOTE 35, page 427With wild majestic port and tone,... | |
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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. 
