| Charles Swan - 1824 - 596 sivua
...frequently be lost! NOTE 62. Page 224. " Here seems to be an allusion to MEDEA'S history."—WARTON. It is surely more analogous to the story of the Minotaur,...be well, all is well." " Si finis bonus est, totum human erit." This gives us the origin, probably, of the proverb, " Alts well that ends well" " Finis... | |
| Wynnard Hooper - 1824 - 552 sivua
...has fancied. NOTE 63. Page 234. " My friend, let us go through the world as other knights are mont to do." " Sicut caeteri milites." Here we discover...This gives us the origin, probably, of the proverb, " Alts well that ends well." " Finis coronat opus," is of a similar character. NOTE 65. Page 239. The... | |
| 1844 - 554 sivua
...The world is no longer governed by the sophism, that " Might makes right." Or by "The good old rule, the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can." In this age of intelligence, there is no moving power but mind ; all others, are passive and inert.... | |
| 1863 - 804 sivua
...world is no longer governed by the sophism, that " Might malees right ;" Or by "The good old rule, the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can." In this age of intelligence, there is no moving power but mind ; all other powers are passive and inert.... | |
| Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 564 sivua
...campaigning and foraging, were just the fellows to have about one in a country where " might is right," and " he may take who has the power, and he may keep who can ; " for, although the Russians had vacated those districts some time previously, predatory bands of... | |
| Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 584 sivua
...campaigning and foraging, were just the fellows to have about one in a country where " might is right," and " he may take who has the power, and he may keep who can ; " for, although the Russians had vacated those districts some time previously, predatory bands of... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1868 - 636 sivua
...members. A contrary rule befits only that condition of society in which the principle is recognized that He may take who has the power, And he may keep who can. If the right to use force be once admitted, it must necessarily / follow as a logical sequence, that... | |
| 1885 - 676 sivua
...struggle for existence among families or peoples comes, the law of force prevails. Man tacitly assumes " that he may take who has the power, and he may keep who can." No doubt the social instincts on the one hand, and experience of the evils of war on the other, tend... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 758 sivua
...ruthless raids, kingly pomps, and unlicensed cruelty. Those wore the days when, as the old ballad runs, He may take who has the power, And he may keep who can • — days in which I am very thankful my lot did not fall, and which, charming as they may seem... | |
| Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 756 sivua
...without leave, and by force and fraud and violence. It would re-enact the code of Sherwood forest, that "he may take who has the power and he may keep who can." Let no true heart quail under the afflictive visitations of war. As a people, we have partaken of the... | |
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