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Home Culture: A Self-instructor and Aid to Social Hours at Home, Comprising ... - Page 405
edited by - 1884 - 672 pages
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 6

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...
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Memoir of the author. M'Fingal

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...
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Reports of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of 1821 Assembled ...

New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 722 pages
...the protection of the innocent, and for scourging the guilty. He quoted the couplet from M'Fingal, " No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." and hoped the gentleman's repeated declamation against courts did not proceed from sucli feelings....
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Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical ..., Volume 1

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...
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Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry...

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...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1851 - 644 pages
...the ked'ntry.' Mr. ' HOPKINS ' do n't seem to like our ' EDITOR'S Table.' That 's not surprising : ' No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.' We could well wish that our ' Table ' was less indifferent than it is ; but still it appears to excite...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1851 - 622 pages
...'the ked'ntry.' Mr. ' HOPKINS' do n't seem to like our ' EIHTOR'S Table.' That 's not surprising : ' No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.1 We could well wish that our ' Table ' was less indifferent than it is ; but still it appears...
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Memorials of William Smith Shaw

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...
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Lectures on Life and Health, Or, The Laws and Means of Physical Culture

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....
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Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

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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