| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 páginas
...th' offender ; The will'sconfirm'd by treatment horrid, As hides grow harder when they're curri'd. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ; Or held in method orthodox His love of justice in the stocks; Or fail'd to lose by sheriff's shears... | |
| John Trumbull - 1820 - 228 páginas
...offender ; The will gains strength from treatment horrid, As hides grow harder when they're curried. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ; Or held in method orthodox His love of justice, in the stocks ; Or fail'd to lose by sheriff's shears... | |
| Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 412 páginas
...offender ; The will gains strength from treatment horrid, As hides grow harder when they 're curried. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ; Or held in method orthodox His love of justice, in the stocks ; Or fail'd to lose by sheriffs' shears... | |
| 1829 - 426 páginas
...offender ; The will gains strength from treatment horrid, As hides grow harder when they 're curried. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ; Or held in method orthodox His love of justice, in the stocks ; Or fail'd to lose by sheriffs' shears... | |
| Joseph Barlow Felt - 1852 - 358 páginas
...by artful statements. This, you may depend, is one grand cause for the unpopularity of the army. ' No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.' "You say, that the people of Virginia think their liberties endangered by this army. Would they think... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1853 - 520 páginas
...the death penalty or something short of that, — they cry out. They make good the old couplet, — " No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." They blunder on, and when they are deep in the slough, are ready to call on Hercules for assistance.... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - 1853 - 238 páginas
...That its execution would in some instances be partially resisted, we have no doubt; for " no rogue e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law;" but this is not a sufficient reason for opposing its enactment and enforcement. If the people have a right... | |
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