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" Here we discover those features of chivalry, so admirably ridiculed by Cervantes. But, in times of oppression, when every one followed " the simple plan, That he may take who has the power, And he may keep who can... "
Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories tr. with preliminary ... - Page 375
by Romani - 1824
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - 1824 - 596 pages
...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...
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Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated ..., Volume 1

Wynnard Hooper - 1824 - 552 pages
...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...
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Die Neugestaltung von Deutschland und die Schweiz

1844 - 554 pages
...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....
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 35; Volume 37

1863 - 804 pages
...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....
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The Hunting Grounds of the Old World

Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 564 pages
...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...
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The hunting grounds of the Old world, by 'The old shekarry', H.A.L.

Henry Astbury Leveson - 1860 - 584 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 41

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1868 - 636 pages
...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...
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The Official Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Church Congress, Held ...

1885 - 676 pages
...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...
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Once a Week, Volume 1; Volume 14

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 758 pages
...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...
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Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of ..., Volume 2

Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 756 pages
...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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