 | Charles Swan - 1824 - 566 sider
...fancied. NOTE 63. Page 234. " My friend, let us go through the world as other \ • knights are wont to do." - " Sicut caeteri milites." Here we discover...This gives us the origin, probably, of the proverb, "All's well that ends well." " Finis coronat opus," is of a similar character. NOTE 65. Page 239. The... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 548 sider
...has fancied. NOTE 63. Page 234. " My friend, let us go through the world as other knights are wont to do." " Sicut caeteri milites." Here we discover...This gives us the origin, probably, of the proverb, " All's well that ends well." " Finis coronat opus," is of a similar character. NOTE 65. Page 239.... | |
 | 1824 - 558 sider
...has fancied. NOTE 63. Page 234. " My friend, let us go through the world as other knights are wont to do." " Sicut caeteri milites." Here we discover...This gives us the origin, probably, of the proverb, "All's well that ends well." " Finis coronat opus," is of a similar character. NOTE 65. Page 239. The... | |
 | Charles Swan - 1824 - 596 sider
...has fancied. NOTE 63. Page 234. " My friend, let us go through the world as other knights are wont to do," " Sicut caeteri milites." Here we discover...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... | |
 | 1844 - 554 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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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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... 
