 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1852 - 358 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pagina’s
...he, To play your rebel tricks on me. All punishments, the world can render, Serve only to provoke th' offender ; The will gains strength from treatment horrid. As hides grow harder when they're curried. No man e'er felt the halter draw, * Oenna labant incidit ictus. Ingens ad U rram duplicate... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 pagina’s
...which will not find its opposers; if not at the hands of the just, it will at the hands of the unjust. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. But it should be our aim to get a system as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can invent ; and to this... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pagina’s
...he, To play your rebeWtricks on me. All punishments, the world con render, Serve only to provoke th' offender ; The will gains strength from treatment horrid, As hides grow harder when they're curried. No man e'er felt the halter draw, * Oennn labant Incidlt Ictus. CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1856 - 200 pagina’s
...he, To play your rebel tricks on me. All punishments the world can render, Save only to provoke th' 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagina’s
...i. Line 67. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. Canto iii. Line 489. No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 1751-1816. The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3. As headstrong as an allegory on the... | |
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