...wars of the seventeenth century. march, carried off whole herds of the neighbouring cattle, and when " the good old rule sufficed them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."" Within the last few years, several stone coffins...

...who was the best fighter to prevail in every dispute. It grew among the people of that time, whea * The good old rule, Sufficed them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.' It did not entirely belong to criminal law. Questions...

...provisions on which the servants had dined, and at the summons of a whistle from the master cook, tills mob of half naked orphans rushed in to scramble for...efforts, owing to the weakness of the government, were but transient and desultory ; yet the great houses of Argyle, Huntley, Athole, and others, whose rank...

...more independent of the ' Monarch of Britain.' It was a time when every man's might made his right ; -the good old rule Sufficed them ; the simple plan That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can." More than once the Danes ravaged Devonshire from...

...discount, physical at a premium; the motto of the latter, the physical force men, seemed to be — " That they should take who had the power, And they should keep wlio can." And they fancied themselves to have, or that they should soon have, the power to take what...

...which we see scattered over the country. The law was not then very scrupulously respected. " For why P the good old rule Sufficed them, — the simple plan That they should take who hare the power, And they should keep who can." Sometimes a contiguous piece of land was a desirable...

...plunder were no worse than those of Robin Hood," said Mr. Hope. " They chose to recognise the old law, ' That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can,' and excused their violent acts as necessary for their existence. But men who once profess to...

...clutches, struggled and rolled upon the ground.and buffetted and even throttled each other ! " For why? the good old rule sufficed them, The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." But in course of time they saw that if this state...

...in physical brute force carried with it superiority in all the relations of life. Men acted on the simple plan — " That they should take who had the power, and they should keep who can." The greatest warrior was he who could wield the heaviest battle-axe, or the sweep of whose broadsword...

...day, but there was a powerful rough-and-ready prejudice in favour of those who followed "the good old plan, that they should take who had the power, and they should keep who can." The prevailing selfishness amongst the official classes and other candidates for Court favour...