...seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. 2632 Sir William Jones : Ode in Imitation of Alcceus. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. 2633 Trumbull : MoFingal. Canto iii. Line 489. Mastering the lawless science of our law, — That codeless...

...their avocations without fear. The people are opposed to the grand-jury system, not because " No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law," but because it savors too much of the old Spanish regime. The good old days when a man could be taken to...

...remembered that both Doctor Happersett and the editors referred to were within the lines of quarantine. "No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. ' ' 8 and come at will. There are no privileges in quarantine, a point which this geutlemau was forced...

...defiance. We fling our concentrated and angered will against the will of God. The old couplet, — " No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law," expresses in homely phrase the natural mood of man towards comminatory decrees. We underrate the evil...

...revolutionary satire M'Fingal, some couplets of which are generally quoted as Butler's, as, for example, '• No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." The rebound against Puritanism is seen no less plainly in the drama of the Restoration, and the stage...

...There never was night that had no morn. 73. The chief glory of any people arises from its authors. 74. No man e'er felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law. 75. A picture is a poem without words. 76. The mind's the standard of the man. 77. An honest man's...

...lines, which have passed into currency as proverbs, are generally attribued to Butler. For example : " No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." Or this : " For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs,...

...gain " from their craft, put in the same plea against interference with their business. " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." But, by common consent, it is the business of the Legislature to suffer no man's self-interest to war against...

...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...

...permanent use as proverbs, which have been wrongly credited to Samuel Butler, author of " Hudibras :" " 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." Another was Col. JOHN TRUMBULL,...