 | E. Zimmermann - 1878 - 154 Seiten
...Uebels. The love of money is the root of all evil. 296. Gewalt geht vor Recht. Might before right. " Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. " WORDSWORTH. 297. Gewohnheit ist andere Natur. Habit... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 Seiten
...awful GOODNESS is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. — MILTON, Paradise Lost. Good Old Eule — Because 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 Roy's Orate. Good Samaritan Tes !... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 Seiten
...— Wordsworth, who has a short poem on " Rob Roy's Grave," in which occur the famous 'lines — " Because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." THE OLD SOLDIER. [OLIVES GOLDSMITH, who, as Dr.... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 346 Seiten
...Some one read the motto on the title-page, which happened to be a quotation from Wordsworth : — " 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." This was a hint sufficient, a word to the wise.... | |
 | 1921 - 724 Seiten
...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, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. The share of the Near East in all this welter of... | |
 | Edwin Russell Jackman, Reub A. Long - 1964 - 444 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 1178 Seiten
...ancestors were wholly destitute of a sense of right, and could have no notion of a claim to exist. 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. The other is a state not different from this in degree,... | |
 | Bertram M. Gross - 1980 - 450 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...tidal current 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... | |
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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. 
