| 1860 - 722 halaman
...who will not be dangerous to them. Free and easy citizens do not admire stern disciplinarians. " No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." And if thieves have the privilege of aiding in the selection of the man who is to manage the rope,... | |
| David K. Hitchcock - 1844 - 286 halaman
...themselves to invective and general terms, is pregnant reason to believe that little injustice was done. " What thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law? " We shall have occasion to speak of the conspiracy that broke out in December, 1825, against the emperor's... | |
| 1847 - 526 halaman
...charters ; 'Even the wild outlaw in his forest walk, Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline. 11. No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. TRUMBCLL'S McFingal. 12. Are not our laws alike for high and low? Or shall we bind the poor man in... | |
| 1847 - 540 halaman
...charters ; Even the wild outlaw in his forest walk, Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline. 11. No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. TRCMBULL'S McFtngal. 12. Are not our laws alike for high and low? Or shall we bind the poor man in... | |
| St. George Tucker - 1857 - 368 halaman
...pressed her hand tenderly; "you should remember, in language of the quaint old satirist, Butler, ' No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law;' and although I would not apply the bitter couplet to my little Jeanie in its full force, yet she must... | |
| Roger Atkinson Pryor - 1859 - 16 halaman
...the member from Pennsylvania is disgusted with the clamor over the Helper publication . Very likely. What " Thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law?" Detected in a clandestine scheme of attack on the sanctity of the Constitution and the peace of the... | |
| 1860 - 712 halaman
...who will not be dangerous to them. Free and easy citizens do not admire stern disciplinarians. " No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." And if thieves have the privilege of aiding in the selection of the man who is to manage the rope,... | |
| Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 756 halaman
...is complaint that this extreme right is a dangerous power, and improperly exercised, but " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." It is the disloyal citizen—disloyal in whole or in part; and I hold the disloyal in part to be far more... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 halaman
...hopeless minority and out of'power, ever rejoiced in the bonds of 'the glorious Union;' just as no man 'e'er felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law.' It was, indeed, under such circumstances, that the States of New England conceived the design of breaking... | |
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