| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1820 - 228 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1829 - 412 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Health - 1853 - 520 pages
...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.... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 pages
...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... | |
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