...we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose. Canto ii. Line 121. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. ' Hi. Line 489. TIMOTHY DWIGHT. 1752-1817. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world,...

...laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven. TICKELL: on the Death of Add-on. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. Law-giving heroes, famed for taming brutes, And raising cities with their charming lutes. WALLER. Having...

...to his logic. The wicked don't like the law, as has been well expressed in the couplet : "No rogue e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." But shall we abrogate the penalties of the law for the encouragement of the wicked ? God forbid ! ' I wish...

...Two or three couplets of " M'Fingal" still circulate as proverbs generally credited to Butler, eg : " No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law : " and, " But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." Trumbull afterward studied...

...bodice, good for growing limbs ; But when the joints are knit, they are not helps, But burdens. — Fane. rds — Trumbull. Laws, as we read in ancient sages, Have been like cobwebs in all ages. Cobwebs for little...

...laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven. TICKELL: on the Death of AiiJison. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. * TRUMUULL: Law-giving heroes, famed for taming brutes, And raising cities with their charming lutes....

...good government aroused the opposition of some who were disturbed by them. This was to be expected. "No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." As he said in his first inaugural, " In administering the police, in executing the laws, in protecting...

...Butler, author of the poem called " McFingal, " which once had very great fame, gave us the lines : No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. THE poet George Crabbe is the author of some descriptions which no other bard has ever succeeded in...

...swindlers of the public who are checked in their corrupt practices. This reminds us that " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." But the laws in question have some very objectionable features, and give Boards such powers as may, by evil...

...any services rendered in preserving the sacredness of the ballot-box and the purity of elections. " No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the taw." " MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ASSIGNING OBJECTIONS TO THE APPROVAL OF THE...